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[Nathaniel Hawthorne, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Nathaniel Hawthorne, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front], [between 1850 and 1855] — historic photograph
[Nathaniel Hawthorne, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front], [between 1850 and 1855]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Nathaniel Hawthorne, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes front]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne appears in this half-length view, turned three-quarters to the right, with his eyes fixed on the viewer. The plate dates from between 1850 and 1855, the years after *The Scarlet Letter* (1850) made him one of the best-known writers in America, and *Ballou's Pictorial* identified it in 1855 as a daguerreotype by the Boston firm Whipple & Black. Gold toning gives the silvered surface its warm brown cast, and the record suggests it may be a copy, a photograph of an earlier image, which was a common practice at the time.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1855]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesIdentification from Ballou's pictorial drawing room companion, July 21, 1855, as daguerreotype of Hawthorne by Whipple & Black. Scratched on back of plate: 90; 100. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsHawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,217 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference613_Nathaniel_Hawthorne_hal_1850

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