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[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], c1873. — historic photograph
[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left], c1873.. 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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Shown seated, three-quarter length, and turned to the left, this is Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts senator and abolitionist. The photograph reproduces a painting by Edgar Parker, and its copyright entry points to a date around 1873, shortly before Sumner died in March 1874. By then he had served in the Senate for more than two decades, and in 1871 he lost his chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee after a bitter break with President Grant. Photographic copies like this one let a painted likeness reach admirers far beyond the original canvas.

Created / publishedc1873.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions.Photographic prints 1870-1880.
NotesE(?)4714 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edgar Parker.
SubjectsSumner, Charles,--1811-1874.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177746

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