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[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, with arm resting on table with tablecloth] – Historic Photograph Print

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [between 1847 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, with arm resting on table with tablecloth], [between 1847 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 brass mat stamped "J. P. Ball, Cincinnati" distinguishes this quarter-plate daguerreotype, which shows an unidentified man from the waist up with his arm resting on a draped table. Cincinnati was a busy river city in the middle of the nineteenth century, and portrait studios there served a growing merchant and professional class. The pose, with the arm on a table, was a common way to suggest composure and respectability. Because a daguerreotype is a mirror-like silver surface, the image shifts with the angle of light, so the face can look sharp from one angle and faint from another.

Created / published[between 1847 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Portrait photographs 1840-1860.
NotesCase: back only - Rinhart 108. Barboza number: 6019.028. Stamped on brass mat: J. P. Ball, Cincinnati. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,985 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference435_Unidentified_man_halfle_1847

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