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[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right], [between 1844 and 1860]. 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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[Robert John Walker, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

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Identified by comparison with a mezzotint engraving by T. Doney, this half-length portrait shows Robert John Walker in three-quarter view turned to the right. Walker, a Mississippi Democrat, served as Treasury Secretary under James K. Polk, where he pushed through the Walker Tariff of 1846, and later governed the Kansas Territory in 1857. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1844 and 1860, and its gold toning gives the image a warm, mirror-like surface. The number 56 scratched on the back is a studio or collection mark that helps trace the plate's history.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 56. Identification from mezzotint by T. Doney. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWalker, Robert J. (Robert John),--1801-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,208 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference298_Robert_John_Walker_half_1844

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