# 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): 7.1 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.) ; mat: 8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.) ; case (closed): 9.2 × 8.2 × 1.6 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 5/8 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.231350.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/7c68d6f2-edbc-42c7-ade7-af49d22f5d3e/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)