Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat
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Few people in 1844 could afford to sit for a portrait, which makes this bearded man in a dark coat a useful window into who got their likeness recorded in the earliest years of photography. The daguerreotype process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a silver-coated copper plate, so each portrait was a unique object rather than a print that could be copied. Sitters had to hold still for several minutes in bright light, and the sharp detail of a surviving plate like this one, from the tailoring of the coat to the texture of the beard, shows how quickly the medium had matured by the mid-1840s.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,288 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 365_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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