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[Giuseppe Garibaldi, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, with full beard] – Historic Photograph Print

[Giuseppe Garibaldi, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, with full beard], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Giuseppe Garibaldi, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, with full beard], [between 1844 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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A window into the past: [Giuseppe Garibaldi, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, with full beard], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Giuseppe Garibaldi, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, with full beard]

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The most distinctive feature of this daguerreotype is the name scratched into the face of the plate, which misspells the sitter as "Garrabaldi," along with a number and a second number on the back. Those marks suggest the plate was catalogued or identified soon after it was made. Mathew Brady's New York studio produced it, and the plate is gold toned, a treatment that deepened the image and gave it a warmer cast. The portrait dates to between 1844 and 1860, the years when Giuseppe Garibaldi was becoming known as a leader of Italian unification and drawing attention in Europe and America. Its bearded, three-quarter profile shows him as the public would have first encountered him.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on face of plate: 11; Garrabaldi. Scratched on back of plate: 450. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
SubjectsGaribaldi, Giuseppe,--1807-1882.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,196 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference195_Giuseppe_Garibaldi_head_1844

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