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[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait], [ca. 1855]. 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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[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait]

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The brass mat on this sixth-plate portrait is stamped "F. Grice," a maker's mark that sets it apart from many unlabeled daguerreotypes of the period. The unidentified sitter is shown three-quarters length, cropped around the knees, a common studio pose in the mid-1850s. Daguerreotypes were unique images fixed on silvered copper, and their mirror-like surface shifts in tone as the viewer moves. By about 1855 the process was still popular, though glass negatives and paper prints were starting to replace it.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portraits 1850-1860.
NotesCase: Rinhart 124. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,982 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference677_Unidentified_man_threeq_1855

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