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[John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated], [1841 or 1842] — historic photograph
[John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated], [1841 or 1842]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[John Henry Frederick Sachse, half-length portrait, facing front, seated]

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Few early portraits name their studio as plainly as this one, since the brass mat is stamped "R. Cornelius, Philada." Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia manufacturer turned photographer, was among the city's first daguerreotypists, and his studio produced many sitter portraits in the early 1840s. This small sixth-plate plate shows John Henry Frederick Sachse seated, half-length and facing the camera, with the long exposure times of the period visible in the stillness of his pose. The plain leather case survives with only its back, so the mat and the image itself carry most of the object's history.

Created / published[1841 or 1842]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1850.Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
NotesBrass mat stamped: R. Cornelius, Philada. Case: back only, plain leather. Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the dawn of photography / Stapp. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 96. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:088.5). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsSachse, John Henry Frederick,--b. 1803.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,737 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222345

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