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[Mrs. William Cushing, half-length portrait, right profile] – Vintage Wall Art

[Mrs. William Cushing, half-length portrait, right profile] — historic print
[Mrs. William Cushing, half-length portrait, right profile]. Historic print 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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A window into the past: [Mrs. William Cushing, half-length portrait, right profile], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Mrs. William Cushing, half-length portrait, right profile]

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The portrait shows its subject in right profile, cropped at the half-length, a pose that was a favorite for formal likenesses for much of the 1700s and 1800s. The caption identifies her only as Mrs. William Cushing and records no date, so her own given name, her husband's exact identity, and the year of the image cannot be confirmed from the record alone. A profile view like this was often chosen to show the outline of the face and the costume clearly, and it is worth looking at the hairstyle and dress for clues to the period.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,168 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122169

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