Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

John Plumbe, Jr.

Title

Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy)

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1847

Medium

Daguerreotype

Dimensions

Plate, approx: 8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in.); Image, sight: 6.5 × 5.3 cm (2 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.); Open case: 9.1 × 16.1 × 0.8 cm (3 5/8 × 6 3/8 × 3/8 in.); Case: 9.3 × 8 × 1.6 cm (3 11/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2019.249

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