[Man and camera]

[Man and camera]

Photograph

[Man and camera]

ca. 1843
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 13/16 in. (9.1 × 7.2 cm)
Overall (1/2 plate): 5 11/16 × 5 × 3/16 in. (14.5 × 12.7 × 0.4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1969.0265.0108
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on backing paper, verso, T: plaque épaisse moyenne, non biseautée.
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on backing paper, verso, C: L'objectif représenté est un \ instrument à portrait, type Petzval, \ à crémaillère [rack and pinion], mais sans diaphragmes \ au centre, comme en construisait déjà \ Lerebours (les diaphragmes se mettaient \ à l'avant.).
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on backing paper, verso, BC: Edmond Becquerel ?
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, T: Collection photographique / de Gab. Cromer
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, label C: Un photographe des \ premiers temps, \ à côté de son appareil, \ vers 1843.
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, label L: Rarissime.
Inscribed in pencil, binding tape, verso, BC: 10D-4
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