First experiment in metro-photography, Mount Valerien

First experiment in metro-photography, Mount Valerien

Photograph

Aimé Laussedat

Maker
French, 1819–1907

First experiment in metro-photography, Mount Valerien

1861
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 1/4 × 12 5/16 in. (26 × 31.2 cm)
Mount: 13 1/4 × 14 9/16 in. (33.6 × 37 cm)
Matted: 16 × 20 × 1/8 in. (40.6 × 50.8 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of Walter J. Clark, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, image recto, TL / TC: Mt Valerien 1861 / fig a
[Penciled grid in upper third of image]
Inscribed in ink (Clark's hand) on verso: W.C. [encircled] \ Photograph by Colonel Laussedat, 1861 \ First experiment in metro-photography.
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