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[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, head three-quarters to the right, eyes front, in civilian dress] – Historic Photograph Print

[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, head three-quarters to the right, eyes front, in civilian dress], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, head three-quarters to the right, eyes front, in civilian dress], [between 1851 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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In this daguerreotype, Winfield Scott, the army's commanding general, appears in civilian dress rather than uniform, his head turned three-quarters to the right while his eyes face the camera. The plate was made in Mathew Brady's studio between 1851 and 1860, a decade when Scott, known as "Old Fuss and Feathers," was a familiar public figure and the Whig nominee for president in 1852. The gold toning and the words "Gen. Scott" scratched into the plate help identify the sitter, and a related plate in the Library of Congress collection is probably a copy of this image. The plate later passed to the U.S. War College, which transferred it in 1920.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesDAG no. 325 is probably a copy of this image. Scratched on face of plate: 146; Gen. Scott. Written on back of plate: 224. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 344. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsScott, Winfield,--1786-1866.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference724_Winfield_Scott_headands_1851

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