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[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to right, with spectacles] – Vintage Photo Print

[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to right, with spectacles], [ca. 1850] — historic photograph
[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to right, with spectacles], [ca. 1850]. 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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A window into the past: [George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to right, with spectacles], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Here the sitter is George Perkins Marsh, the Vermont-born lawyer, philologist and congressman, shown in a half-length pose with his head turned three-quarters to the right and spectacles visible. The identification rests on a Healy portrait of Marsh held by Dartmouth College, and the plate is attributed to Mathew Brady's studio, one of the best-known portrait operations of the period. Marsh later served as American minister to the Ottoman Empire and to Italy, and his 1864 book *Man and Nature* is regarded as an early study of human impact on the landscape.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesIdentification from painting by George P.A. Healy in possession of Dartmouth College. Scratched on back of plate: 101. Hallmark: Rinhart 50. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 334. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMarsh, George Perkins,--1801-1882.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference192_George_Perkins_Marsh_ha_1850

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