[Optical instrument still life]

[Optical instrument still life]

Photograph

Louis Jules Duboscq

Maker
French, 1817–1886

[Optical instrument still life]

ca. 1855
Daguerreotype
Image (each image): 2 5/8 × 2 5/16 in. (6.6 × 5.8 cm)
Overall: 3 3/16 × 6 13/16 × 3/16 in. (8.1 × 17.3 × 0.4 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1970.0012.0001
Inscriptions Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, T / B / C: Con.[Collection] photographique / de Gab. Cromer / par Dubosc-Soleil. [underlined] \ une de leurs toutes premières vues \ stéréoscopiques; choix des \ instruments qu'ils fabriquaient \ (dont un stéréoscope).

Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, BL: très rare [underlined]
Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, BR: double [underlined]

Inscribed on printed octagonal label applied to original backing paper in ink, verso, TRC [partially visible]: No. [7 or 9?]

Inscribed on backing paper in pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso, B: [illegible]

Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand), verso, not visible: toute première de Dubosc-Soleil avant les poinçons rouges / trouvé avec un stéréoscope à fond plein.







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