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[Philander Chase, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left with eyes facing front, wearing clerical cap] – Vintage Wall Art

[Philander Chase, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left with eyes facing front, wearing clerical cap], [between 1844 and 1852] — historic photograph
[Philander Chase, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left with eyes facing front, wearing clerical cap], [between 1844 and 1852]. 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 inscription "Bish. Chase" scratched into the plate identifies the sitter as Philander Chase, the Episcopal bishop who first led the church in Ohio. The likeness is a copy daguerreotype, made from a lithograph by the Kellogg brothers, so it records a printed portrait rather than a live sitting. Chase spent much of his career as a frontier missionary, founding Kenyon College in Ohio and Jubilee College in Illinois. The plate's link to Mathew Brady's studio places the image in the years when American portraiture was moving quickly toward photography, and it shows the cleric in the plain clerical cap of his calling.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1852]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from lithogaph by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg. Copy daguerreotype, probably slightly enlarged from the original. Scratched on face of plate: 184; Bish. Chase. Scratched on back of plate: 70. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsChase, Philander,--1775-1852. Clergy--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference84_Philander_Chase_headand_1844

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