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Daguerreotype Portrait of a man with sideburns sitting near a small table, firmly holding a large leather-bound book in his right hand.
Sixth plate in its Union Case set with Pinchbeck.
The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."
Daguerreotype of a man with a book in his Union Case
Daguerreotype Portrait of a man with sideburns sitting near a small table, firmly holding a large leather-bound book in his right hand.
Sixth plate in its Union Case set with Pinchbeck.
The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."