[Portrait of seated man, boy standing by his side]
Print
[Portrait of seated man, boy standing by his side]
ca. 1841
Fizeau process engraving from a daguerreotype
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 11/16 in. (9.1 × 6.8 cm)
Paper: 11 5/16 × 7 13/16 in. (28.7 × 19.8 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1288.0001
DescriptionImage was made using a process invented by Hippolyte Fizeau in which the original daguerreoptype was made into an intaglio printing plate through the use of acid to etch the image.
Inscriptions Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on mount recto, BC: Excessively \ Rare + \ Valuable \ Original FIZEAU - DAGUERREOTYPE ENGRAVING ONE of 2.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 2 [circled]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: Distributed by Fizeau at close of his meeting at Academy of Sciences, \ 1844. See A. Marshall, Complete Photog., p. 1783.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 2 [circled]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: Distributed by Fizeau at close of his meeting at Academy of Sciences, \ 1844. See A. Marshall, Complete Photog., p. 1783.
