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[Matthew Vassar, 1792-1868, bust portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Matthew Vassar, 1792-1868, bust portrait, facing right] — antique engraving
[Matthew Vassar, 1792-1868, bust portrait, facing right]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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 window into the past: [Matthew Vassar, 1792-1868, bust portrait, facing right], preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Matthew Vassar, 1792-1868, bust portrait, facing right]

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Matthew Vassar (1792-1868) was an English-born brewer who became a Poughkeepsie, New York, philanthropist, and this engraved bust portrait shows him in profile, facing right, with his features rendered in fine line work typical of nineteenth-century American portrait prints. Vassar's best-known legacy is Vassar College, which he founded in 1861 as one of the first institutions to offer women a full collegiate education on par with men's colleges. The caption card records no date for the engraving, so it likely dates from his later years, when his name was closely tied to that college and his public reputation was at its height.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,227 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121446

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