The Maillets began buying daguerreotypes in the 1960s and their 200-strong collection spans the full history and evolution of ...

The daguerreotype process of using mercury to develop pictures on polished metal, and the wet-collodion plate with its nitrocellulose solution are well-known, but as conservators at the British ...

The French gifted the Daguerreotype process to the world, except for Great Britain. A patent was filed in Britain due to a long-standing rivalry. The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process ...

I knew I would first have to figure out if it were a real daguerreotype. I went to the Daguerrian Society, a reputable and keen group of collectors. Since daguerreotypes are made on a polished ...

On the man's breast was left a perfect daguerreotype of the tree. In September, 1825, the brigantine II Bum-Servo was anchored in the Armiro bay, at the entrance of the Adriatic sea, where she was ...

21, No. 3, 2019 Comedy of the Studio: Daguerreotype, or ... Comedy of the Studio: Daguerreotype, or I Know all These Faces (1850) by Vladimir Sollogub and Peter Karatygin This is the metadata section.

Now, together with Gilles Bencimon of Radio France Internationale, he has discovered a photo reproduction of a daguerreotype depicting (most likely) Fryderyk Chopin. The daguerreotype was made in 1847 ...