Sepia portrait of a man in profile, octagonal mount – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Sepia portrait of a man in profile, octagonal mount brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sepia portrait of a man in profile, octagonal mount
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The sharp side view and warm brown tone set this portrait apart from the frontal studio poses elsewhere on this board, and the octagonal mount frames the head in a card style popular in the mid-19th century. The picture is filed under Abraham Lincoln, which places it within the large body of photographs made of him during his years in public life, when his face became one of the most reproduced in the country. Profile views were less common than full-face studio portraits, and their clean outline translated easily into engravings and printed material. The brownish cast is typical of early photographic prints, and it softens the contrast you would see in a modern black-and-white image.
| Original scan | 4,225 × 5,981 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-P-20 |
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