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Unknown
Portrait of Unidentified Mancirca 1850

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Daguerreotype portrait in original red leather and gold-mat case, chest-up view of a white man with dark curly hair in a dark coat and white collar, looking directly at the viewer

Unknown, Portrait of Unidentified Man, circa 1850, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Jack Shear, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Portrait of Unidentified Man
Date Made
circa 1850
Medium
Daguerreotype (1/6 plate with domed preserver in leather case)
Dimensions
Image (sight): 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (6.99 × 5.72 cm) Primary support (sight): 2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (6.99 × 5.72 cm) Case (open): 3 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 7/16 in. (9.21 × 16.51 × 1.11 cm) Case (closed): 3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in. (9.21 × 8.26 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jack Shear
Accession Number
M.91.287.8
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography