Portrait of a Man

Photograph

Portrait of a Man

2020.163

Seated in chair, longish hair parted to side, has sideburns grown down to jaw-line, wearing high white collar with black vest and jacket

Daguerreotype

Unknown

Photographer

circa 1840

1/6 plate

3-1/2 in

3-1/4 in

11/16 in

Inventory

Fading, Oxidation

Image

very faded - dark areas becoming transparent and separating into dots, slight oxidation around edges

Inventory

Disjoin

Case

top: no longer attached