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Summary
Artist (engraver, painter), President of the National Academy of Design.
Identification from reproduction of daguerreotype in Newhall, History of Photography, 1949, p. 25.
Scratched on back of plate: 157; [undeciphered canceled inscription] [...eion]
Corners rounded.
Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 313.
Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
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Date
01/01/1845
Contributors
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896.
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
