Victor Prosper Considerant

Victor Prosper Considerant

portraits; men; books; historical people; La Reunion; U.S. West; Southwest

Although this ambrotype is not identified, circumstantial evidence suggests that it is a portrait of Victor Prosper Considerant (1808-1893), the French founder of La Reunion colony near Dallas. This is an interesting horizontal portrait in which Considerant is seated off center in the picture frame, his elbow propped on a stack of books and hand on the side of his head. Source: Lawrence T. Jones III.

Unknown

Lawrence T. Jones III

SMU Libraries

1860

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1 photograph: quarter plate ambrotype, hand-colored; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Still image

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