Portrait of an Elderly Man

Photograph

2020.425

head and torso, salt and pepper colored hair, wrinkled forehead, beard along jaw-line, wearing black jacket with a white band around neck

Daguerreotype

Unknown

Photographer

circa 1840

4-5/8 in

3-3/4 in

1/2 in

Plate size: quarter

Case: hinge tearing, glass and meal slightly spotted Image: oxidized around edges and in some spots