[Man]
Photograph

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault

Maker
French, 1819–1868

[Man]

July 2, 1842
Daguerreotype
Image: 7 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (19.1 × 13.7 cm) [whole plate]
Overall: 10 1/16 × 7 1/2 × 1/4 in. (25.5 × 19.1 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Signed and dated on plate, recto, BR: L. Foucault \ 2 Juillet 1842

Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, C: Collection de Gab. Cromer \ Un daguerreotype \ par Léon Foucault \ signé et daté 1842 [year underlined] \ pièce très rare [very rare underlined twice]

Inscribed on applied label in pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso, C: et mis sous verre par moi [?]

Inscribed on backing paper in ink (Cromer's hand) below label on verso, C: Léon Foucault perfectionne \ dès le début le daguerreotype. \ Voir " Nouvelles Instructions pour \ l'usage du Daguerreotype" par Ch. Chevalier \ (1841) pages 6 et 67.

Inscribed on label applied to backing paper in pencil, verso, BRC: 10D-525

Hallmark: "(incomplete) rosette" "40"
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