The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Man Holding Glasses in Front of Painted Outdoor Backdrop]

Unknown

Date

1850s

Medium

Daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

Image: 6.7 x 5.5 cm (2 5/8 x 2 3/16 in.) Plate: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) Case: 1 x 9.2 x 8.3 cm (3/8 x 3 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Object type

Daguerreotype

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2015.400.5

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

The Met object ID 291758. 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.