Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)

Marcus Aurelius Root American, 1808-1888

Date

1855

Medium

Daguerreotype

Dimensions

13.9 × 10.7 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.); Open case: 15 × 23.8 × 1.1 cm (5 15/16 × 9 3/8 × 7/16 in.); Case: 15 × 11.9 × 2.2 cm (5 15/16 × 4 11/16 × 7/8 in.); Plate: 14 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)

Department

Photography and Media

Credit line

The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust