# Portrait of a Man

- By: Marcus Aurelius Root (American, 1808 - 1888)
- By: Samuel Root (American, 1819 - 1889)
- Date: c. 1848
- Medium: daguerreotype
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: image (visible): 12.1 × 9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 9/16 in.) ; mat: 14.2 × 10.9 cm (5 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.) ; case (closed): 15.2 × 12.4 × 2.2 cm (6 × 4 7/8 × 7/8 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.231348.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/f299a9a3-a368-46e7-b9d6-4c1f4bdb8212/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)