Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a case – Vintage Photo Print
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A window into the past: Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a case, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man in a case
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Few sitters from the 1850s kept their likeness as carefully as this bearded man, whose face survives on a daguerreotype dated 1855 and housed in its original case. Daguerreotypes were made on silver-plated copper sheets, so each one is a single positive image that shows a mirror-like reversal and can shift from dark to bright as the viewer tilts it. By the mid-1850s the process had been public for about sixteen years and was widely used for portraits, often sold in small hinged cases lined with velvet or leather. The case itself is part of the object's history, since it protected the delicate surface from tarnish and abrasion for more than a century.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,671 × 4,684 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 666_Unidentified_man_headan_1855 |
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