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[George Washington Crawford, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Antique Photo Print

[George Washington Crawford, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1849] — historic photograph
[George Washington Crawford, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1844 and 1849]. 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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[George Washington Crawford, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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Once catalogued under the name G.W. Cramp, this half-plate daguerreotype shows George Washington Crawford, the Georgia politician who served as governor from 1843 to 1847 and later as Secretary of War under Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. Mathew Brady's studio made the plate in the mid-1840s, when daguerreotypes had become the fashionable way for public men to be pictured, and the gold toning warms the silvery surface. The identification rests on an engraving of the sitter that served as the frontispiece of *The American Review* in July 1849, which allows the portrait to be matched to a known public figure.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1849]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesAlternative identification: G.W. Cramp (cat. 5). Written in ink on back of plate: 464; G.W. Crawford. Identification from engraving by Ritchie in The American Review, July 1849, frontispiece. Hallmark: 40M. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsCrawford, George Washington,--1798-1872.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference125_George_Washington_Crawf_1844

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