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[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait facing slightly right] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait facing slightly right], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait facing slightly right], [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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Gold toning gives this whole-plate daguerreotype its warm, silvery depth, and the sitter's three-quarter pose, turned slightly to the right, was a common format in 1850s portraiture. The record credits the image to the studio of Mathew Brady, whose New York gallery drew many prominent sitters before the Civil War. The woman is unidentified, though the record offers the poet Phoebe Cary as an alternative identification. The plate later passed to the U.S. War College and entered the Library of Congress collection in 1920.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 9. Alternative identification: Phoebe Cary. 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 scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference700_Unidentified_woman_thre_1851

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