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[Franklin Pierce, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left] – Antique Photo Print

[Franklin Pierce, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Franklin Pierce, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left], [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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[Franklin Pierce, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left]

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Turned three-quarters to the left and framed head-and-shoulders, this whole-plate daguerreotype shows Franklin Pierce, who served as the 14th president from 1853 to 1857. The plate is gold toned, a treatment that warmed the silver image and softened its surface. The record credits Mathew Brady's studio, one of the busiest portrait operations of the 1850s, where public figures were photographed. The sitter's identity was confirmed by an 1852 engraving by W.L. Ormsby, a reminder that studio likenesses were often translated into prints for wider circulation.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : whole plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesHallmark: Rinhart 9. Identification from an engraving by W.L. Ormsby, 1852. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 339. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsPierce, Franklin,--1804-1869.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,171 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference588_Franklin_Pierce_headand_1851

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