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John Jabez Edwin Mayall

[Seated Man Pointing to a Passage in an Open Book]

1850s
Daguerreotype with applied color
15.3 × 10.8 cm (6 × 4.3 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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