Lemuel Shaw. Artist: Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811-1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808-1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire). Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). Photography Studio: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843-1863). Date: ca. 1850.The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for a clientele that included leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. This first photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851), spread rapidly around the world after its public presentation in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silvered copper plate is a unique photograph that, viewed in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimensionality. Lemuel Shaw's imposing presence, sculpted by intense sunlight and gifted artistic vision, is a star

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Lemuel Shaw. Artist: Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811-1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808-1901 Crawford Notch, New Hampshire). Dimensions: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). Photography Studio: Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843-1863). Date: ca. 1850.The Boston partnership of Southworth and Hawes produced the finest portrait daguerreotypes in America for a clientele that included leading political, intellectual, and artistic figures. This first photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851), spread rapidly around the world after its public presentation in Paris in 1839. Exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapors, each highly polished silvered copper plate is a unique photograph that, viewed in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimensionality. Lemuel Shaw's imposing presence, sculpted by intense sunlight and gifted artistic vision, is a star

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