(CASED IMAGES) Slightly smaller than half plate daguerreotyp

Sale 2097 - Lot 321

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Slightly smaller than half-plate daguerreotype portrait of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), after the Brady portrait; in a morocco push button case. Circa 1849

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A variant of this image is in the National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

For his contemporaries, Daniel Webster embodied the very spirit of the nation. "Thinking of America without Webster. . .seems like thinking of her without Niagara, or the Mississippi." Webster represented Massachusetts in Congress, argued before the Supreme Court, and eventually served as Secretary of State. But despite great effort over three decades of public life, Webster failed to become President.

In an interview late in his life, Brady recalled Webster's docile temperament before the camera: "'Use me as the potter would the clay, Mr. Brady,' he said to me, and he was more than pleased with the result."