[Washington Irving, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]
Summary
Author; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1842-1846.
Scratched on back of plate: 250; Washington Irving.
Identification from engravings by S. Hollyer and others. The original Plumbe daguerreotype is reproduced in Washington Irving, Mr. Bryant's address... N.Y., G.P. Putnam, 1860, opposite page 38.
Copy daguerreotype, reverse of original by John Plumbe.
Hallmark: Rinhart 20.
Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 329.
Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Tags
Date
01/01/1855
Contributors
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896.
Plumbe, John, 1809-1857, photographer
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.