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[Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated, holding glasses] – Antique Photo Print

[Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated, holding glasses], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated, holding glasses], [between 1840 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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[Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated, holding glasses]

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Here a seated woman, shown from the waist up and turned slightly to the left, holds a pair of spectacles. The daguerreotype is unsigned, and the sitter's identity as Mary Manuel Lisa, the wife of the St. Louis fur trader Manuel Lisa, rests on a John Sartain engraving of her that was published in a memorial volume about her life. Daguerreotypes of this kind, made between 1840 and 1860, were prized for their sharp detail, and this one is held within the Hempstead Family Papers at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Identification based on an engraving by John Sartain published in Memorials of the life and character of Mary Manuel Lisa. Case: scroll motif. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:174). Forms part of: Hempstead Family Papers, 1810-1984 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsLisa, Mary Manuel,--1782-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference262_Mary_Manuel_Lisa_halfle_1840

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