# Portrait of a Man and Woman

- By: Marcus Aurelius Root (American, 1808 - 1888)
- By: Samuel Root (American, 1819 - 1889)
- Date: c. 1848
- Medium: daguerreotype
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: image (visible): 8.9 × 6.6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 5/8 in.) ; mat: 10.6 × 8 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.) ; case (closed): 11.8 × 9.4 × 1.9 cm (4 5/8 × 3 11/16 × 3/4 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.231349.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/592cda29-f5d2-48b3-963d-d9053b3c0426/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)