[Self-portrait]
Photograph
[Self-portrait]
Un amateur inconnu
ca. 1845
Daguerreotype
Image: 2 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (6.3 × 4.9 cm) [1/6 plate]
Overall: 3 13/16 × 3 5/16 × 3/16 in. (9.7 × 8.4 × 0.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1969.0265.0085
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, TC: par un \ amateur inconnu \ dont j’ai de nombreux \ daguerréotypes, dans \ les boîtes à rainures \ où je les ai trouvés
[Translation: by an / unknown amateur / for whom I have a lot / of daguerreotypes, in / the slotted boxes / where I found them.]
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, TL: plaqué assez épais \ non biseauté. [Translation: plated rather thick \ not beveled.]
Inscribed in pencil, backing paper verso, BR: 10D-34
[Translation: by an / unknown amateur / for whom I have a lot / of daguerreotypes, in / the slotted boxes / where I found them.]
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, TL: plaqué assez épais \ non biseauté. [Translation: plated rather thick \ not beveled.]
Inscribed in pencil, backing paper verso, BR: 10D-34
