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[Unidentified man wearing spectacles, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, arm on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Wall Art

[Unidentified man wearing spectacles, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man wearing spectacles, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1840 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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The sitter in this sixth-plate daguerreotype wears spectacles, and his arm rests on a draped tablecloth, a pose that suggests a formal studio sitting. The photographer and the sitter are both unidentified, but the stamped Rinhart hallmark on the plate gives a small clue to where the image was made. Daguerreotypes of the 1840s and 1850s were made on silver-coated copper plates that were polished to a mirror finish, so the picture appears only at certain angles and shifts with the light. Portraits like this one, made in the years between 1840 and 1860, were often kept in cases and carried as keepsakes.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,247 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference352_Unidentified_man_wearin_1840

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