Art Object Page

Portrait of a Man, c. 1855

Not on View

Medium

ambrotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 7.2 × 6 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
mat: 7.7 × 6.4 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
overall: 8.6 × 7.2 × 0.6 cm (3 3/8 × 2 13/16 × 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2019.1.11

Artists / Makers

Image Use

on verso of brass mat, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite on applied label: PD372

Ashworth Family, England; (sale, England, 2017); (Jason Wright, Huddersfield, England); NGA purchase, 2019.

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Portrait of a Man, c. 1855