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[Neith Boyce Hapgood,full-length portrait, seated, left profile, wearing ornamental costume and holding up roses] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Neith Boyce Hapgood,full-length portrait, seated, left profile, wearing ornamental costume and holding up roses], [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Neith Boyce Hapgood,full-length portrait, seated, left profile, wearing ornamental costume and holding up roses], [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Neith Boyce Hapgood, who went on to write novels and plays and became part of the lively bohemian circle of early twentieth-century New York, sits for this portrait in left profile. Frances Benjamin Johnston made the image as a cyanotype, a light-sensitive process that produces the deep blue tones seen here. Posed in an ornamental costume and holding up roses, the sitter appears in the decorative, theatrical manner favored by portrait photographers of the 1890s and 1900s. The print is worth studying for how Johnston combined a formal, staged elegance with the individuality of a sitter who was then building her own literary career.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1910.Cyanotypes 1890-1910.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 61069.
SubjectsHapgood, Neith Boyce,--1872-1951.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,091 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166760

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