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[Balie Peyton, half-length portrait, face nearly in profile to the left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Balie Peyton, half-length portrait, face nearly in profile to the left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Balie Peyton, half-length portrait, face nearly in profile to the left], [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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Pictured nearly in profile and facing left, this half-length portrait carries a name scratched into the face of the plate: Balie Peyton, a Tennessee politician who served in Congress. The image is a gold-toned half-plate daguerreotype, made between 1844 and 1860 in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose galleries photographed many public men in those years. Gold toning gave the silvery image a warmer cast and helped protect its delicate surface. Because each daguerreotype is a single unique object, the scratched inscription is an important clue to who sat for it.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 250; Bailie Peyton. Hallmark: 40. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsPeyton, Balie,--1803-1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,227 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference152_Balie_Peyton_halflength_1844

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