THE FACE OF THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN

Known images of Frelinghuysen's face include:

--an oil painting c 1839-40 at New York University.
--an engraving c. 1846 by Francis D'Avignon
--one glass plate negative taken by Mathew Brady which probably dates
to shortly before Frelinghuysen's death in the early 1860s.

The face in plate I is compared to each of these pictures below:


The painting on the right records how Frelinghuysen wore his hair at about the time that he became chancellor of the University of the City of New York and about the time this daguerreotype was taken.


On left is detail of Plate "I".
On right is an engraving of an oil painting of Frelinghuysen c. 1840. It is reversed to match the orientation of the daguerreotype. (Henry M. MacCracken and Ernest S. Sihler, Seventy Years: A History of New York University, ed. Joshua L. Chamberlin [Boston: R. Herdon Co., 1901], 88.)



On left is detail of Plate "I".
On right is Francis D'Avignon. Theodore H. Frelinghuysen after a daguerreotype by John Plumb. Detail of the lithograph Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of New York, printed by G. & W. Endicott and published by S. W. Wood, 1846. (New York University Archives.)



On left is detail of Plate "I".
On right is Theodore H. Frelinghuysen. Detail of a photographic copy from the original glass negative (Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.)


Frelinghuysen's nose obviously had a rounded end. A nose with a rounded end is visible in the "shadow cast from the nose" under close examination of plate box image "I". A light black line has been added to show the line of the nose visible in the daguerreotype.


On left is enlarged, retouched detail of Plate "I".
On right is Theodore H. Frelinghuysen. Enlarged detail of a photographic copy from the original glass negative (Brady-Handy Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.)