# Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy)

- By: John Plumbe, Jr. (American, born Wales, 1809-1857)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/249874)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/4ac1c2a5-adda-0000-90e4-fc66d406ceed/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)