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[Unidentified child, three-quarters length portrait, facing slightly left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Unidentified child, three-quarters length portrait, facing slightly left], [ca. 1855] — historic photograph
[Unidentified child, three-quarters length portrait, facing slightly left], [ca. 1855]. 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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Unidentified child, three-quarters length portrait, facing slightly left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Unidentified child, three-quarters length portrait, facing slightly left]

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The sitter's dress has been hand-colored, with a touch of paint laid over the silvery plate that gives this small child's portrait a warmth most daguerreotypes lack. Shown three-quarters length and turned slightly to the left, the unidentified subject sits in a sixth-plate image of the kind that made portraiture affordable to many families in the 1850s. Such pictures were usually kept in plain leather cases like this one, where the metal plate's mirror-like surface shifts from dark to bright as the viewer moves.

Created / published[ca. 1855]
Medium1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1840-1860.Portrait photographs 1840-1850.
NotesCase: plain leather. Sitter's dress hand-colored. Transfer, Manuscript Division (Frances G. Wickes Papers); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:118). Forms part of: Frances G. Wickes Papers (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,020 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
Reference334_Unidentified_child_thre_1855

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