[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated beside table with tablecloth, holding book] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated beside table with tablecloth, holding book], [between 1842 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/ddfa0d762a91-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated beside table with tablecloth, holding book], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated beside table with tablecloth, holding book]
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Though the sitter remains unidentified, the pose is revealing: a man seated beside a draped table, one hand resting on a book, shown in three-quarter length. The plate has been hand-colored, a practice popular in the 1840s and 1850s, when tints were added to cheeks, lips, and clothing to soften the silvery tones of the original image. The hallmark and case variant link the piece to a cataloged group of mid-century casings, and the book and tablecloth reflect the studied respectability that sitters of this era often sought.
| Created / published | [between 1842 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : quarter plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 13a. Case: variant of Rinhart 219. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 478_Unidentified_man_threeq_1842 |
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