Title: [Seated Man Pointing to a Passage in an Open Book]
Object type: Daguerreotype
Date: 1850s
Artist:  John Jabez Edwin Mayall 
Artist bio: British, Oldham, Lancashire 1813–1901 West Sussex
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
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
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits