[Alexander Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, with hand on table with tablecloth] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Alexander Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, with hand on table with tablecloth], [between 1850 and 1859?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fd/fdb984832415-L.webp)
(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 [Alexander Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, with hand on table with tablecloth]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Alexander Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, with hand on table with tablecloth]
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Few daguerreotypes of the 1850s show a sitter this formally posed, with one hand resting on a draped table, and this sixth-plate portrait of Alexander Bell stands out for its hand coloring, which adds soft tints to the face and clothing over the silvered plate. The photographer is not recorded, and the plain leather case gives few clues beyond the portrait itself. The image is held in the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs at the Library of Congress, which links it to the family of Alexander Graham Bell. Daguerreotypes like this one are best viewed at an angle, since the image appears as a positive only when light reflects off the polished silver surface.
| Created / published | [between 1850 and 1859?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40. Case: plain leather. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Bell, Alexander,--1790-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,281 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 28_Alexander_Bell_threequa_1850 |
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