Portrait of a Man

American 19th Century, c. 1850

The image depicts a person from the waist up. The individual is seated with one arm on a patterned table. They have light skin, an oval face, short dark hair, and are wearing a dark, wide-brimmed hat, a dark top with… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: American 19th Century ¹
Date: c. 1850 ¹
Medium: daguerreotype with applied color ¹
Original: 7,391 × 9,330 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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