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[Framed painting of unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[Framed painting of unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Framed painting of unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [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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This daguerreotype is a copy of a painted portrait rather than a direct sitting, showing a man's head and shoulders turned toward the viewer. The sitter is unidentified, though one record suggests Robert Morris as a possibility. Mathew Brady's studio, known for portraits of many public figures, produced the plate sometime between 1844 and 1860, and the sixth-plate format was a small, common size for portraits of that era. The plate later passed through the U.S. War College and entered the Library of Congress in 1920.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identification: Robert Morris. Copy of a painted portrait. Hallmark: Rinhart 13a. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,299 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference187_Framed_painting_of_unid_1844

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