Washington Irving
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Washington Irving
ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image (sixth plate): 3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (8.2 × 7 cm)
Case: 3 11/16 × 3 5/16 × 3/4 in. (9.4 × 8.4 × 1.9 cm)
Gift of Donald K. Weber
1997.1825.0001
DescriptionCopy of a daguerreotype attributed to John Plumbe Jr.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on applied label: "Unrecorded Image of Washington Irving?"
Inscribed in ink: "Purchased Sacketts Harbor N.Y. Library Auction Case not
original"
Inscribed in ink: "Purchased Sacketts Harbor N.Y. Library Auction Case not
original"
