Portrait of a woman in a dark velvet dress – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Portrait of a woman in a dark velvet dress. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Portrait of a woman in a dark velvet dress
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A dark velvet dress marks this sitter as someone who dressed with care for a formal portrait, a common practice in 19th-century America, when sitting for a likeness was a deliberate and sometimes costly occasion. The record does not name the woman, so her identity and any link to the Lincoln family are unconfirmed, even though the picture is grouped here with material from the family's early years. Portraits of this period often show a carefully arranged pose and plain backdrop, and the sheen and folds of the fabric are worth a closer look as evidence of how clothing was made and worn.
| Original scan | 1,583 × 2,372 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | L-F-6A |
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