Francis Wey

Francis Wey

Photograph

Pierre Petit

Maker
French, 1832–1909

Francis Wey

From the album Louis Napoléon album


ca. 1866
Albumen silver print
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 1/16 in. (9.1 × 5.3 cm)
Mount: 4 × 2 3/8 in. (10.1 × 6.1 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1981.1205.0038c
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on album page, T \ B: Pierre Petit \ Francis Wey
Printed in black ink, mount recto, BL: Pierre Petit
Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, BC: (Francis Wey)
Printed in black ink, verso, C: Photographie Des Deux Mondes \ Exposition Universelle \ Paris, Besançon \ Pierre Petit \ Photographe, \ 31, Place Cadet, \ Paris.
Printed in black ink, verso, L: Prusse
Printed in black ink, verso, R: Bade
Inscribed in pencil, verso: Francis Wey
Inscribed on pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso, BL: Auteur d'un remarquable article \ sur les débuts de la photographie [Translation: Author of a remarkable paper on the beginnings of photography]
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