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[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table] – Antique Photo Print

[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table], [between 1844 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Michael Faraday, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, hand resting on table], [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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Few sitters of the daguerreotype era carried as much scientific weight as Michael Faraday, the English chemist and physicist whose 1831 discovery of electromagnetic induction laid the groundwork for the electric motor and generator. In this half-plate portrait he sits turned three-quarters to the right, one hand resting on a table, a relaxed pose suited to a man known for patient experiment. The plate has been gold toned, a treatment that deepens the image's tonal range and helps protect its silver surface, and the name Faraday scratched on the back identifies the sitter. The record credits the portrait to Mathew Brady's studio, a prominent American portrait operation, and dates it somewhere between 1844 and 1860.

Created / published[between 1844 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesScratched on back of plate: 454; Faraday. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Exhibit loan 4116-L.
SubjectsFaraday, Michael,--1791-1867.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,262 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference268_Michael_Faraday_halflen_1844

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