[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, full face, with arm on table with tablecloth] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, full face, with arm on table with tablecloth], [between 1849 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/99/99e160e8ff2e-L.webp)
(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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[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, full face, with arm on table with tablecloth]
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Few details identify the sitter of this small hand-colored daguerreotype, a man shown from roughly the waist up, full face, with one arm resting on a draped table. Sixth-plate portraits like this one, about 2 3/4 by 3 1/4 inches, were a popular and inexpensive format in the 1850s, and hand-applied color on the cheeks or clothing was an added touch. The picture is held within papers of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia, though the photographer and sitter remain unrecorded.
| Created / published | [between 1849 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 42. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,300 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 482_Unidentified_man_threeq_1849 |
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