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[Philip Phillips, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Philip Phillips, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Philip Phillips, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1850 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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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[Philip Phillips, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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This half-length portrait shows Philip Phillips (1807-1884), a lawyer and Alabama congressman, turned three-quarters to the left. The image is a half-plate daguerreotype, gold-toned to deepen its tones and protect the silvered surface, and it was produced in the studio of Mathew Brady, whose portraits of prominent Americans were among the most widely circulated of the 1850s. The record notes that it may be a copy, meaning it was likely made by photographing an earlier image, a common practice of the period. Its later transfer to the U.S. War College in 1920 is one of several routes by which these early plates reached institutional collections.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPossibly a copy daguerreotype. Scratched on back of plate: 206. Hallmark: Rinhart 4c. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsPhillips, P. (Philip),--1807-1884
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference623_Philip_Phillips_halflen_1850

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