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American 19th Century

Portrait of a Man, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 13 × 10 cm (5 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
mat: 14 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
case (closed): 16.2 × 13 × 2.6 cm (6 3/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund and Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2017.3.1

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

(Dennis Waters, Exeter, NH), 1994; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Waters, Dennis

Exhibition History

2017: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

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