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The Blorbos, from my Arctic History. James Fitzjames and Francis Crozier based on the daguerreotypes.

It's really annoying to try and draw someone if you only have the one picture of them, but I've been meaning to try for a while

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2023-02-04

For these daguerreotypes taken in 1841 by A.J. Ellis, are perhaps the earliest known photographs of
Featured are the east and west side of the Street of the Tombs and two views of the Forum
Images: https://t.co/zhtJNsJANh

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2019-08-20

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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2019-04-12

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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2018-02-14

"Adam Fuss Daguerreotypes & The Womb of the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination" on view at Hans Kraus Jr Fine Photographs https://t.co/pB9PctMvCR

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2016-10-01

Louis Daguerre Daguerreotypes 1, 1839

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2015-06-05