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Daguerreotype portrait of two or three seated figures – Vintage Wall Art

Daguerreotype portrait of two or three seated figures, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of two or three seated figures, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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A window into the past: Daguerreotype portrait of two or three seated figures, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Daguerreotype portrait of two or three seated figures

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Few surviving daguerreotypes from 1844 show a group of seated sitters as clearly as this one, and the plate's small mirrored surface still holds a remarkable degree of detail. Daguerreotypes were made on silver-coated copper, so the image appears to shift between positive and negative depending on the angle of light, a quality that makes the sitters seem to hover just beneath the glass. Exposures in this period often ran several minutes, which required subjects to hold still in head braces or against stands, and the stiff, composed postures visible here reflect that demand. The record does not name the sitters or the studio, but the format was at its height in the mid-1840s, when portraiture was the main commercial use of the process.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,277 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference347_Unidentified_man_and_wo_1844

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