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Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy)
John Plumbe, Jr. (American, born Wales, 1809-1857)
1847
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Classification
- Photograph
- 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.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
