Celestino Portuguese ship captain half-length portrait seated facing left – Vintage Photo Print
(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: Celestino Portuguese ship captain half-length portrait seated facing left, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Celestino Portuguese ship captain half-length portrait seated facing left
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Little is recorded about the sitter beyond the name Celestino and the title's description of him as a Portuguese ship captain. The portrait shows him seated in half-length, turned to the left, a format Mathew Brady's Washington studio used for many wartime sitters. Brady, who had built his reputation on portraits of prominent Americans before the war, went on to document the conflict through portraits and battlefield views. The picture dates to 1865, the year the war ended. Its subject tags list him as Union military personnel, which does not quite match the ship captain title.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 791. Exhibit loan 4136-L. · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,256 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52244 |
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