Portrait of a Man
c. 1850
Artist, American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857

Artwork overview
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Medium
daguerreotype with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (visible): 6.7 × 5.5 cm (2 5/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
mat: 8.1 × 6.9 cm (3 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
case (closed): 9.2 × 8 × 1.7 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/8 × 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.35.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
George Whiteley, Atlanta, GA; NGA purchase, 2017.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
on brass mat, bottom right embossed: PLUMBE
Wikidata ID
Q64156070