Portrait of a Man

c. 1850

John Plumbe Jr.

Artist, American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 6.8 × 5.5 cm (2 11/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
    mat: 8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)
    case (closed): 9.2 × 8.1 × 1.6 cm (3 5/8 × 3 3/16 × 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.35.2


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


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