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[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man in Middle Eastern costume with arm around boy, full-length portrait], [between 1844 and 1860]. Historic photograph 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 full-length portrait of a man in Middle Eastern costume, his arm around a young boy, shows how studio sitters of the 1840s and 1850s often posed in borrowed dress for an exotic effect. This half-plate daguerreotype was gold toned to deepen its darks and sharpen the image, and it was made in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose portraits from this period are widely studied. The plate came to the Library of Congress in 1920 by transfer from the U.S. War College, and the sitters remain unidentified. Costume pieces like this one reflect a mid-century American fascination with distant lands.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Group portraits 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 30. Scratched on back of plate: 276. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan645 × 834 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186480

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