[Seated Man Pointing to a Passage in an Open Book]
Object type: Daguerreotype
Department: Photographs
Artist: John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Artist bio: British, Oldham, Lancashire 1813–1901 West Sussex
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: British
Date: 1850s
Medium: Daguerreotype with applied color
Dimensions: Image: 15.3 x 10.8 cm (6 x 4 1/4 in.)
Plate: 19.7 x 15.2 cm (7 3/4 x 6 in.)
Case: 2.1 x 21 x 16.5 cm (13/16 x 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession year: 2015
Tags: Men|Portraits