Photograph of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
date: label: Date made
content: 1848
name: label: depicted
content: Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande
label: maker
content: Meade, Charles R.
notes: label: Description
content: A popular portrait method of photography from the 1839 announcement of its invention to about 1860, the Daguerreotype was a unique photograph with no negative—each photograph was exposed on a copper plate coated with silver-nitrate. The process was later replaced with easier and less hazardous methods of negative-positiv-based photography like wet-plate collodion and albumen.
label: Description
content: This half-length Daguerreotype portrait of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, inventor of this photographic process (1839), was taken by American photographer Charles R. Meade when he visited Daguerre at his home in Bry-sur-Marne, France, in 1848. The image is matted in a wooden picture frame for exhibition, unlike most Daguerreotypes, which are preserved in small cases. The photograph was donated to the Smithsonian in 1890.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: France: Île-de-France, Bry-sur-Marne
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: G. Cramer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003115
label: catalog number
content: 3115
label: accession number
content: 23473
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Type
content: daguerreotype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 cm x 22.5 cm x 3 cm; 10 5/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 1 3/16 in