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[William Sidney Mount, full length portrait, facing left, wearing top hat and holding a coat] – Vintage Photo Print

[William Sidney Mount, full length portrait, facing left, wearing top hat and holding a coat], [between 1853 and 1860] — historic photograph
[William Sidney Mount, full length portrait, facing left, wearing top hat and holding a coat], [between 1853 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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The sitter stands full length in this half-plate daguerreotype, turned to the left with a top hat in one hand and a coat held at his side. The velvet lining of the case carries an embossed stamp for Brady's Gallery at 205 and 359 Broadway in New York, a studio famous for its portraits of notable Americans in the 1850s. The record identifies the sitter as the painter William Sidney Mount, a genre painter from Long Island known for scenes of rural and everyday life, but it also lists an alternate identification as Alfred Jones, an engraver, so the name remains open to question.

Created / published[between 1853 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Portrait photographs 1850-1860.
NotesCase: oval surrounded by flowers and scrolls. Embossed in velvet: Brady's Gallery 205 & 359 Broadway, New York. Alternately identified as: Alfred Jones, engraver. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress) Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 96 (detail), p. 106 (full).
SubjectsMount, William Sidney,--1807-1868.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,797 × 4,672 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Reference717_William_Sidney_Mount_fu_1853

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