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[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Shown in three-quarter view turned to the right, the physician John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) sits for this half-plate daguerreotype, made in Mathew Brady's New York studio sometime between 1844 and 1860. Francis practiced medicine in New York and moved in the city's literary and professional circles. Gold toning, applied to the silvered plate, gives the image its warm tonality and helps stabilize the surface. Notations scratched on the back show the plate later passed through the U.S. War College before reaching the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 78; 158 [canceled] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsFrancis, John W. (John Wakefield),--1789-1861.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,193 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference232_John_Francis_halflength_1844

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