Portrait of a Man

c. 1855

American 19th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 5.2 × 3.8 cm (2 1/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
    mat: 6.3 × 4.7 cm (2 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.)
    case (closed): 7.5 × 6.5 × 2 cm (2 15/16 × 2 9/16 × 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.7.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C. Urban, CT); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1995; NGA purchase, 2018.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64144806

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