Artworks · John Plumbe, Jr.

Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman)

1847 · Daguerreotype

11 × 8.2 cm (4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.); Open case: 18.6 × 11.5 × 1.2 cm (7 3/8 × 4 9/16 × 1/2 in.); Case: 9.3 × 11.5 × 1.7 cm (3 11/16 × 4 9/16 × 11/16 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy)

1847 · Daguerreotype

Plate, approx: 8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in.); Image, sight: 6.5 × 5.3 cm (2 9/16 × 2 1/8 in.); Open case: 9.1 × 16.1 × 0.8 cm (3 5/8 × 6 3/8 × 3/8 in.); Case: 9.3 × 8 × 1.6 cm (3 11/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Elizabeth Bakewell James and her Son, Frank B. James

1846

Elizabeth Page Bakewell and her Grandson, Frank B. James

1846

The United States Capitol; John Plumbe Jr. (American, born United Kingdom, 1809 - 1857); 1846; Daguerreotype; 8.9 × 11.9 cm (3 1/2 × 4 11/16 in.); 96.XT.62

1846

Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman)

1845 · Daguerreotype

10.6 × 8.2 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Open case: 18.6 × 11.7 × 1.1 cm (7 3/8 × 4 5/8 × 7/16 in.); Case: 9.3 × 11.7 × 1.5 cm (3 11/16 × 4 5/8 × 5/8 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Portrait of a Man Reading)

1842 · Daguerreotype

8.2 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in.); Open case: 9.3 × 16 × 0.3 cm (3 11/16 × 6 5/16 × 1/8 in.); Case: 9.3 × 8 × 1.7 cm (3 11/16 × 3 3/16 × 11/16 in.); Plate: 8.3 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dr. Edward Livingston

1841

Man with Chinstrap Beard

1840

Elderly Man Holding Ivory-topped Walking Stick

1840