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[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in armchair, three-quarters to the left, in clerical robe] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in armchair, three-quarters to the left, in clerical robe], [between 1851 and 1852] — historic photograph
[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in armchair, three-quarters to the left, in clerical robe], [between 1851 and 1852]. 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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Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, seated in a clerical robe, was named the first Archbishop of Westminster in 1850, after the Pope restored a Catholic hierarchy in England. That move provoked a fierce reaction in Protestant Britain, a row known as the Papal Aggression controversy, and Wiseman became its most visible target. This half-plate daguerreotype was made in the New York studio of Mathew Brady, whose sitters often arrived in formal dress for portraits meant to project public authority. The gold toning and the sharp detail in the robe are worth noticing, since they show how much a daguerreotype could capture of fabric and expression.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1852]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 170. Identical to DAG no. 183. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsWiseman, Nicholas Patrick,--1802-1865. Clergy--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,041 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference101_Nicholas_Patrick_Wisema_1851

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