The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Child Wearing Straw Hat, Arm Resting on Table]

Unknown

Date

1840s–50s

Medium

Daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

Image: 7 x 5.8 cm (2 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.) Plate: 10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) Case: 1.9 x 11.7 x 9.5 cm (3/4 x 4 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Object type

Daguerreotype

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2015.400.24

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

The Met object ID 291777. 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.