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[William Hickling Prescott, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[William Hickling Prescott, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1848 and 1850] — historic photograph
[William Hickling Prescott, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1848 and 1850]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Shown in three-quarter profile, turned to the left, William Hickling Prescott appears in this whole-plate daguerreotype. Prescott wrote popular histories of the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru and of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, and he dictated much of his work to secretaries because he had lost the sight of one eye and was nearly blind in the other. The plate was made at Mathew Brady's studio between 1848 and 1850, and gold toning gives the image its warm, silvery tone. A lithograph of the same likeness by François d'Avignon appeared in Charles Edwards Lester's 1850 *Gallery of Illustrious Americans*, which supports the identification.

Created / published[between 1848 and 1850]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1850.Daguerreotypes 1840-1850.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 432. Hallmark: Rinhart 4b. Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 8 in Charles Edwards Lester's Gallery of illustrious Americans, 1850, published by M.B. Brady. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 343. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsPrescott, William Hickling,--1796-1859.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference543_William_Hickling_Presco_1848

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