The photographs below allow a general comparison between image "H" taken c. 1839 and three other known views of Dr. Draper at different ages. Scroll down the series of comparisons. All images have been corrected to their proper orientation.


On left is detail of plate box image "H" (reversal of the original daguerreotype is corrected). (Writer's collection.)
On right at top is Franis D'Avignon. John William Draper 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).
Second down on the right is John William Draper, member of New York University faculty in 1859. (From Henry M. MacCraken and Ernest S Sihler's A History of New York University, ed. Joshua L. Chamberlin [Boston: R. Herdon Co., 1901], 125).
Third down on the right is Dr. John William Draper, a detail from a cabinet card c1870s (Writer's collection).