# Portrait of a Boy with a Hoop

- By: J. Wistar Davis (American, active 1840s)
- Date: c. 1848
- Medium: daguerreotype
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: image (visible): 9 × 6.5 cm (3 9/16 × 2 9/16 in.) ; mat: 10.5 × 8.2 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.) ; framed: 16.3 × 14 × 1.8 cm (6 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 11/16 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: The Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.227284.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8ba15918-9078-40e7-9f23-46167a9e8bbb/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)