Unidentified photographer
1850-1857 (ca)
Untitled (portrait of man in front of moving panorama with Arctic theme)

Daguerreotype
5 x 6.2 cm (1 15/16 x 2 7/16 ins) (image)
 
de Young - Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Tribute Fund, Accession Number: 1993.2
 
Curatorial description (accessed: 12 February 2017
A portrait of a formally dressed man in top hat (the artist?) standing against a painting which depicts an arctic scene with a number of warmly dressed people sitting in one-man sleds being pulled by reindeer against a moonlit sky.
 
LL/73088