Today's is just drawing pretty Victorian ladies from 1840s/50s daguerreotype portraits 🎨

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This 1839 photo of lamp manufacturer Robert Cornelius is perhaps the world’s first It was a Daguerreotype made in Philadelphia, less than a year after the Daguerreotype was announced in Paris.
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“Ruskin knew what he was experiencing in the industrial revolution was changing our world.” Artist Emma Stibbon recreated Ruskin’s Alpine journey, compare her photo of the Mer de Glace with Ruskin’s daguerreotype from 1854

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I won't be able to post new work for a few months, so here are some of my older faves <3 Meet Captains Fitzjames and Crozier from the , painted after their 1845 daguerreotypes.

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Thomas Richard Williams (1825-1871)
The Sands of Time, 1850-1852
Stereo-daguerreotype

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John Quincy Adams (11 Jul 1767 - 23 Feb 1848), 6th president of the U.S. (1825–29) & eldest son of Pres. John Adams. Only president in history to serve in U.S. House of Representatives after leaving presidency.

📷 Philip Haas, 1843. Daguerreotype.
🎨 G.P.A. Healy, 1858.

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in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady).

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We see your daguerreotype and raise you a Cheshire.

John Tenniel (1820-1914), "Cheshire Cat in the Tree Above Alice," hand-colored proof. Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.

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In my we use a 40's camera to take that picture. I really love discover that picture in is a real

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