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Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of a man at a table

1840
daguerreotype
1/6 plate (circular)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 22920 3156
76:0168:0158

OLD GEH NUMBER: 10D-77
NON-GEH NUMBER: 2-224

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester February - June, 1977.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(by Cromer) (dated with note that picture was taken with a Gaudin camera) (see notes for translation)

NOTES: Image is round, taken with Gaudin camera (according to Cromer). Cataloged 1977, JB. Inscription translated 8/97, AH. In pen: "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 plaque, non-beveled"

SUBJECT: portrait, male

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