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[R.J. Breckinridge, head-and-shoulders portrait] – Vintage Photo Print

[R.J. Breckinridge, head-and-shoulders portrait] — historic print
[R.J. Breckinridge, head-and-shoulders portrait]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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[R.J. Breckinridge, head-and-shoulders portrait]

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Among the portraits on this board, this head-and-shoulders study of R.J. Breckinridge stands out for its plain, direct framing of the sitter, and it was made as a mezzotint. The caption card records no date, so the exact year of printing is uncertain, but the technique places it in the long tradition of tonal engraving. Mezzotint was prized for portraits because the scraped and burnished copper plate could produce soft shifts from shadow to highlight that line engraving struggled to match. Readers who want to narrow the date can compare the dress and lighting with other mezzotints of the same period.

Medium1 print : mezzotint.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,228 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118505

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