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[Statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown] – Historic Photograph Print

[Statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown], [between 1851 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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This daguerreotype shows the bronze statue of DeWitt Clinton, the New York governor who championed the Erie Canal, set among the monuments of Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The sculptor, Henry Kirke Brown, was one of the leading American sculptors of the mid-nineteenth century, and his portrait statues of public men were often placed in cemeteries and city parks. The photographer is unidentified, and the plate was dated only to the years between 1851 and 1860, when daguerreotypes still competed with paper prints. The plate came to the Library of Congress as a 1934 gift from Henry K. Bush-Brown, a sculptor and relative of Brown.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. In passe partout frame. Inscribed on back: Daguerreotype of statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown, Greenwood Cemetery. Gift; Henry K. Bush-Brown; 1934; (DLC/PP-1934:075). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsClinton, DeWitt,--1769-1828--Statues.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference102_Statue_of_DeWitt_Clinto_1851

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