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Paul Revere – Vintage Print

Paul Revere, c1887 Oct. 26. — historic photograph
Paul Revere, c1887 Oct. 26.. Historic photograph from the Boston National Historic Park 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Paul Revere. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Paul Revere

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Unlike the other views on this board, this print reproduces a profile portrait of Paul Revere made by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a French émigré artist who worked in the United States from the 1790s into the early 1800s. Saint-Mémin drew his sitters' profiles with a device called a physionotrace, then engraved them in small, precise likenesses. The portrait shows Revere as a man of the early republic rather than the young rider of 1775, which is worth noticing when comparing it with better-known images of him. Because the catalog data comes from an old caption card and has been revised over time, the exact date of this photographic copy should be treated with some caution.

Created / publishedc1887 Oct. 26.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesReproduction of St. Memin portrait. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,121 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110987

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