[Marcus Aurelius Root]

[Marcus Aurelius Root]

Photograph

Marcus Aurelius Root

Maker
American, 1808–1888

[Marcus Aurelius Root]

Self-portrait


1850–1855
Daguerreotype
Image (quarter plate): 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (11.4 × 8.3 cm)
Frame: 9 5/8 × 8 7/16 × 1 3/8 in. (24.5 × 21.5 × 3.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0259.0009
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mat verso: Portrait of Marcus A. Root \ Daguerreotypist
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