Portrait of a Man, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

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.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2017.35.2

Artists / Makers

John Plumbe Jr. (artist) American, born Wales, 1809 - 1857

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on brass mat, bottom right embossed: PLUMBE

Provenance

George Whiteley, Atlanta, GA; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Whiteley, George

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.