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[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right], [between 1820 and 1862] — antique engraving
[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right], [between 1820 and 1862]. Antique engraving 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right]

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Shown in half-length and turned to the right, this engraved likeness depicts David Emanuel Twiggs, a Georgia-born career army officer whose service ran from the War of 1812 through the Mexican-American War. Twiggs earned a reputation as a hard-fighting division commander in Mexico and later led U.S. Army forces in Texas. In February 1861, as Texas moved toward secession, he surrendered those troops and federal property to state authorities, an act that cost him his commission. The engraving, made sometime between 1820 and 1862, reflects the period when printed portraits of military men circulated widely as signs of public standing.

Created / published[between 1820 and 1862]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenrePortrait prints 1820-1870.Engravings 1820-1870.
SubjectsTwiggs, David Emanuel,--1790-1862.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan897 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163575

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