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[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right] – Vintage Photo Print

[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 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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[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

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A half-length portrait of David Dudley Field, a New York lawyer and reformer, shows him turned three-quarters to the right in this half-plate daguerreotype. Mathew Brady's studio produced the plate sometime between 1844 and 1860, and its gold toning gives the silvery image a warmer tone and added durability. The sitter is confirmed through a later reproduction in *The Green Bag* from 1891, which shows Field as an older man. Field's work on New York's codes of civil procedure, along with the prominence of his brothers Cyrus Field in telegraphy and Stephen J. Field on the U.S. Supreme Court, makes him a notable sitter of the period.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from reproduction of photograph of Field as an older man in The Green Bag, February, 1891. Scratched on face of plate: 241; D. Dudley Field. Scratched on back of plate: 84; David Dudley Field. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsField, David Dudley,--1805-1894.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,208 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference559_David_Dudley_Field_half_1844

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