[Man]
Photograph

[Man]

1840
Daguerreotype
Image: 3 1/4 × 2 15/16 in. (8.2 × 7.4 cm) [1/6 plate]
Overall: 8 9/16 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 in. (21.8 × 16.5 × 1 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1976.0168.0158
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on applied label, verso, TC: Collection photographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ Rarissime example \ de portrait fait avec \ l'appareil Gaudin [underlined], \ que j'ai dans ma \ collection. x [encircled] 1840 \ Rarissime [underlined]
Inscribed in pencil, applied label, BR: (2-224)
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on blue backing paper , verso, BC: Example également de \ la façon de faire les \ portraits à l'époque, sur \ une terasse sur un toit.
Inscribed in ink (Cromer's hand) on binding paper, verso, RC: plaque assez épaisse, non biseautée.
Inscribed in pencil, binding tape, verso, BRC: 10D-77
[Translation: Rare example of a portrait made with the Gaudin camera, which I have in my collection. 1840 / Good example of the fashion of making portraits in this era, on the terrace of a roof. / thick plate non-beveled]
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