# Portrait of a Man Reading a Newspaper

- By: John Plumbe, Jr. (American, born United Kingdom, 1809 - 1857)
- Date: about 1842
- Medium: Daguerreotype
- Classification: Cased object
- Dimensions: Plate (1/4 Plate): 10.7 × 7.9 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104CQ5)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/501da13f-9cbb-4eab-a304-c45ef58add0a/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)