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[John Caldwell Calhoun, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[John Caldwell Calhoun, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] — historic photograph
[John Caldwell Calhoun, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]. 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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John C. Calhoun, shown here in a half-length seated portrait turned toward the right, was a South Carolina statesman who served as vice president under two presidents, secretary of state, and senator, and became one of the most forceful advocates of states' rights and slavery in the antebellum period. The record does not give a date for this print, but photographic portraits of prominent men like Calhoun circulated widely from the 1840s onward, when studio portraiture became popular. Such images were often reproduced as engravings or carte de visite cards, making the sitter's face familiar to a national public. The pose and turn of the body reflect the conventions of mid-nineteenth-century portrait photography.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,274 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121520

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