James H. Lane
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 (attributed)
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- Plate: 9 × 6 × 0.3 cm (3 9/16 × 2 3/8 × 1/8")
- Holding institution
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Image provider
- smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Individual Portrait Both · 100%
One named male sitter dominates the image in a formal studio pose; the catalog identifies the work as a portrait of James H. Lane.
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Interiors Both · 99%
The sitter is posed within an indoor studio arrangement, and the catalog lists Interior among the subjects.
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Political Figures Metadata · 98%
The catalog identifies James H. Lane as a US Senator, US Congressman, and Lieutenant Governor, supporting the subject category political figures.
Medium and Techniques
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Photography Metadata · 100%
The catalog classifies the object as a photographic negative and records its medium as a glass plate collodion negative.
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Black-and-White Photography Both · 98%
The supplied image is monochrome, and the catalog identifies the object as a photographic negative made through the collodion process.
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Traditional Photographic Techniques Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the object as a glass plate collodion negative, a nineteenth-century photographic process.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1860–70, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Materials
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Glass as Material Metadata · 100%
The recorded medium is specifically a glass plate collodion negative.
Furniture and Lighting
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Container Both · 98%
A rectangular box is visibly placed on the table at left, and the catalog identifies a box among the depicted objects.
Source & rights
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894. James H. Lane. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection.