[Self-portrait]

[Self-portrait]

Photograph

Cromer's Amateur

Maker
French, active 1845–1855

[Self-portrait]

Un amateur inconnu


ca. 1850
Daguerreotype
Image: 2 7/16 × 1 7/8 in. (6.2 × 4.8 cm) [1/6 plate]
Overall: 3 11/16 × 3 5/16 × 3/16 in. (9.4 × 8.4 × 0.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, TC: par un amateur \ inconnu, dont j’ai \ de nombreux daguer- \ réotypes, dans les \ boîtes à rainures où \ je les ai trouvés. [Translation: by an / unknown amateur / for whom I have a lot / of daguer- / reotypes, 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: plate rather thick / not beveled.]
Inscribed in pencil, backing paper verso, BR: 10D-33
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