Art Object Page

Portrait of Two Men, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 6.5 × 5 cm (2 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
mat: 8 × 7 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
case (closed): 9.5 × 8.5 × 1.8 cm (3 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2017.3.3

Artists / Makers

Higgins (artist) American, active 1850s

Image Use

on brass mat, bottom left embossed: HIGGINS

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

Waters, Dennis

Portrait of Two Men, c. 1850