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[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry 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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A half-plate daguerreotype, toned gold, shows the English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday seated in three-quarter view with one hand resting on a table. The image came from Mathew Brady's studio in the years between 1844 and 1860, a period when Faraday's work on electromagnetic induction and electrochemistry had already made him one of the best-known scientists in Britain. The name "Faraday" is scratched on the back of the plate, and the record notes that it passed through the U.S. War College before reaching the Library of Congress in 1920. Portraits like this one are a useful look at how early photography recorded scientific reputations.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 454; Faraday. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibit loan 4116-L.
SubjectsFaraday, Michael,--1791-1867.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,809 × 4,612 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220266

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