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Today's #StudySunday is just drawing pretty Victorian ladies from 1840s/50s daguerreotype portraits 🎨
This 1839 photo of lamp manufacturer Robert Cornelius is perhaps the world’s first #selfie! It was a Daguerreotype made in Philadelphia, less than a year after the Daguerreotype #invention was announced in Paris.
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#history #photography #art #industrialrevolution
“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 @BBC_Cumbria
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 #FranklinExpedition , painted after their 1845 daguerreotypes.
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Madame Zarya poses for a daguerreotype
Thomas Richard Williams (1825-1871) #photography
The Sands of Time, 1850-1852
Stereo-daguerreotype
#OnThisDay in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady). #earlyphotography #daguerreotypes
@EastmanMuseum 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.
In my #shortfilm @corto_gangsters we use a 40's camera to take that picture. I really love discover that picture in @WonderWomanFilm is a real #daguerreotype #WonderWoman #photography
Daguerreotype jewellery - a lovely surprise. #daguerreotype #victorianphotography https://t.co/DCcjs6t0Zl