The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Blind Man and His Reader]

Unknown

Date

ca. 1850

Medium

Daguerreotype

Dimensions

Image: 9.1 x 6.6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.) Case: 12 x 9.4 cm (4 3/4 x 3 11/16 in.)

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2005.100.271

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005

The Met object ID 285466. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.