[The Gainsborough hat] – Antique Print
![[The Gainsborough hat], [between 1895 and 1898] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/851dda8c7570-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [The Gainsborough hat], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[The Gainsborough hat]
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Few hats of the 1890s carried a name as specific as the Gainsborough, and this platinum print shows Ethel Reed wearing one in the style named for the painter Thomas Gainsborough. Its broad brim and billowing plumes echo the 18th-century English portraits he made, a look that fashion revived repeatedly during the decade. Photographers of the period often chose platinum printing for its soft tonal range and matte surface, qualities well suited to the texture of feathers and fabric here. The print, dated between 1895 and 1898, came to the Library of Congress in 1934 as part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection, a gift made anonymously.
| Created / published | [between 1895 and 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on tan mount : platinum ; 5 7/8 x 4 9/16 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Platinum prints 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Published title: The Gainsborough Hat. Image content features: MODEL--Ethel Reed; COSTUME--Hats; PEOPLE--Women. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1934; (DLC/PP-1934:33). Anonymous gift to the Library of Congress, 1934. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,206 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129139 |
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