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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque – Vintage Print

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, [no date recorded on caption card]. 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: Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

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The portrait is a halftone reproduction of a painting inscribed on its reverse with the name William Birch, the English-born Philadelphia artist. The sitter, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, was born in Constantinople in 1783 to a French father and a German mother. He settled in Philadelphia and became one of the most prolific and eccentric naturalists of his day, naming many plants, fishes, and shells of the American interior. Halftone printing rendered photographic tones with dots of ink, so the image reached readers through books and periodicals rather than as the original canvas. No date is recorded for this reproduction, so its origin should be treated as uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repro. of painting, signed on by the the back, Wm. Birch. No. 12. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan978 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160007

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