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[Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1853 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1853 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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[Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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Embossed in the velvet of its case with the name of Brady's Gallery at 205 and 359 Broadway in New York, this half-plate daguerreotype shows the abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), head and shoulders, turned to the left. Phillips, a Boston lawyer who became one of the movement's most forceful speakers, was a prominent antislavery voice in the 1850s, and portraits of him were made for admirers and fellow reformers. Mathew Brady's Broadway rooms were among the best-known portrait studios of the period, and the oval case, framed by flowers and scrolls, shows the ornate taste of the time.

Created / published[between 1853 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesCase: oval surrounded by flowers and scrolls. Embossed in velvet: Brady's Gallery 205 & 359 Broadway, New York. Purchase; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:091). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPhillips, Wendell,--1811-1884.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,297 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference715_Wendell_Phillips_headan_1853

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