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[Portrait of a woman in a floral dress adorned with diamond brooches and bows] – Antique Photo Print

[Portrait of a woman in a floral dress adorned with diamond brooches and bows], ca. 1900. — historic photograph
[Portrait of a woman in a floral dress adorned with diamond brooches and bows], ca. 1900.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Little in the record identifies the sitter, so the title, which staff devised, describes what is visible: a woman in a floral dress set off by diamond brooches and bows. Platinum printing, widely prized by serious photographers around 1900, produced soft, even tones and a matte surface that suited fabric textures like these. The print was a gift from Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent American photographer who gave a large body of her work to the Library of Congress in 1948. It was later reproduced in the catalog for *Ambassadors of Progress*, a 2001 book and exhibition on American photography at the Musée d'Art Américain Giverny.

Created / publishedca. 1900.
Medium1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 16 cm. mounted on thick Rembrandt mount, 43 x 35 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Platinum prints 1900.
NotesTitle devised by staff. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 164. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsWomen--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan741 × 921 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195501

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