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[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, with mustache and spectacles] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, with mustache and spectacles], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, with mustache and spectacles], [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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The spectacles and full mustache set this half-length portrait apart, with the sitter turned nearly to face the camera. It is a half-plate daguerreotype, gold toned to deepen its tones and protect the silvery surface, and it was produced in the studio of Mathew Brady between 1844 and 1860. The sitter was identified by comparison with an 1854 engraving of him in *The Knickerbocker Gallery*, and the back of the plate bears the alternate spelling "McLoud" along with the ink number 434. The plate was transferred to the U.S. War College in 1920 and is now held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesAlternative identification: McLoud. Scratched on back of plate: Mc-Loud. Written in ink on back of plate: 434. Identification from engraving by Capewell & Kimmel in Knickerbocker Gallery, 1854, p. 135. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsMacLeod, Xavier Donald,--1821-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference557_Xavier_Donald_MacLeod_h_1844

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