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[James M. Mason, three-quarter length portrait, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[James M. Mason, three-quarter length portrait, facing left], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[James M. Mason, three-quarter length portrait, facing 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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[James M. Mason, three-quarter length portrait, facing left]

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Mason, shown in three-quarter length and turned to his left, sat for this half-plate daguerreotype from Mathew Brady's studio at a time when he was a leading voice in the U.S. Senate for Virginia. He later helped write the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a law that made him one of the most divisive figures of the antebellum years. In 1861, after Virginia seceded, he became a Confederate envoy to Britain, and he was among the two men seized from the British mail steamer *Trent* that November, an episode that nearly drew Britain and the United States into war. The plate's exact date is uncertain, but the record places it between 1844 and 1860.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 18. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMason, J. M. (James Murray),--1798-1871.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,181 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference223_James_M_Mason_threequar_1844

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