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[View of a sculpture relief The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]" – Historic Photograph Print

[View of a sculpture relief The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]", [between 1854 and 1860] — historic photograph
[View of a sculpture relief The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]", [between 1854 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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[View of a sculpture relief The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This daguerreotype records a sculpted relief titled *The Spirit's Flight*, not a painting or a live subject, and the plate has been trimmed to a smaller size than its original. The engraved brass mat credits H.K. Brown and E.D. Palmer, placing the work among the American sculpture of the mid-19th century. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate dates to between 1854 and 1860, and Henry K. Bush-Brown gave it to the Library of Congress in 1934. Its silvered surface, with the scroll-medallion case around it, shows the sculpture's soft modeling in a way a paper print could not.

Created / published[between 1854 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, cut down.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Case: central scroll medallion with corner scrolls on front; plain back. Engraved on brass mat: The Spirit's Flight, H.K. Brown, from E.D. Palmer. Gift; Henry K. Bush-Brown; 1934; (DLC/PP-1934:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: The dream of flight, American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-2004.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,263 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference710_View_of_a_sculpture_rel_1854

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