[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seated, facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seated, facing front], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c98aabcd73b4-L.webp)
(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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[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seated, facing front] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seated, facing front]
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Two girls sit side by side, three-quarter length and facing the camera, in this sixth-plate daguerreotype, whose color was brushed onto the silvered surface by hand after exposure. Makers in the 1840s and 1850s often added rouge to cheeks and gold to jewelry, a modest finish that made an inexpensive portrait look lifelike. The plate came to the Library of Congress as a gift from Frances Benjamin Johnston. Its photographer and sitters remain unidentified, but the plain leather case back with a central metal lozenge hints at the everyday trade in such keepsakes.
| Created / published | [between 1840 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather with a central metal lozenge. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,254 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 197_Group_portrait_of_two_u_1840 |
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