Question: What photographer used bitumen to make the earliest extant nature picture?

Is Many hours of exposure in the camera were required, making bitumen impractical for ordinary photography, but from the 1850s to the 1920s it was in common use as a photoresist in the production of printing plates for various photomechanical printing processes.[not in citation given] a good answer to this question?

Possible answers:
(A). yes.
(B). no.
(B).