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[Col. John Trumbull, half-length portrait] – Vintage Photo Print

[Col. John Trumbull, half-length portrait], [between 1900 and 1912] — historic image
[Col. John Trumbull, half-length portrait], [between 1900 and 1912]. Historic image from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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This rare historic image captures [Col. John Trumbull, half-length portrait] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Col. John Trumbull, half-length portrait]

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Trumbull is shown here as a half-length figure, but the picture is a color autochrome of an earlier painting, not a view of the man himself. The original portrait was made by Waldo and Jewett, the New York partnership of Samuel Lovett Waldo and William Jewett. Trumbull (1756-1843) served as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War and later painted scenes such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which made his own likeness a familiar subject for other artists. The transparency is cracked down the middle, a reminder of how fragile early color glass plates were.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1912]
Medium1 transparency : autochrome, color ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger; caption on negative: Col. John Trumbull. Photograph of a painting by Waldo and Jewett. Transparency cracked down middle. McCormick's 749" on transparency. Listed in Detroit
SubjectsTrumbull, John,--1756-1843.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 770 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-78550

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