[Copy photograph of portrait of Daguerre from an 1848 daguerreotype by Charles Meade]
Photograph
John A. Whipple
American, 1822–1891
Adolphe Braun
French, 1812–1877
[Copy photograph of portrait of Daguerre from an 1848 daguerreotype by Charles Meade]
1848
Carbon print, printed later
Image (oval): 2 11/16 × 1 15/16 in. (6.9 × 4.9 cm)
Paper: 3 7/8 × 2 7/16 in. (9.8 × 6.2 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 × 1/16 in. (35.6 × 28 × 0.2 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1984.0462.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso, BC: tirage au charbon d'un \ cliché de Mayer et Pierson \ par Braun précesseur de \ Mayer et Pierson
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on mount recto, BC: This is a carbon print copy of the crystalotype copy made by John \ Adams Whipple (pub. in Photographic & Fine Art Jour, Feb 1855) from the \ original daguerreotype portrait by Charles R. Meade made in 1848. -RB [Robert Bretz, GEH Librarian]
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on mount recto, BC: This is a carbon print copy of the crystalotype copy made by John \ Adams Whipple (pub. in Photographic & Fine Art Jour, Feb 1855) from the \ original daguerreotype portrait by Charles R. Meade made in 1848. -RB [Robert Bretz, GEH Librarian]
