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The Mint, Paris

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  • Description

    Daguerreotype view of Pont Neuf, Paris, early 1840s. The image is small with cut corners on a much larger plate.

  • Place
    Auckand/New Zealand
  • Other Id

    69348 (Presto content ID)

    PH-1932-233-1 (Reference Number)

    TR365 B623 (Library of Congress Call Number)

    1932.233 (accession number)

    eth. 17624 (ethnology)

    M507 (accession number)

    PH-CNEG-C21280 (Copy negative number)

    3048 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

    Photography

Images and documents

Images

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    photograph

  • Name/Title
    The Mint, Paris
  • Primary Maker

     Louis-Auguste Bisson (Photographer)

  • Place
    Auckand/New Zealand
  • Date
    Circa 1841
  • Physical Description

    75 mm. x 65 mm. (image)

    150 mm. x 125 mm. (plate)

    165 mm. x 140 mm. (case)

  • Level of Current Record
    Single Item
  • Related Object Notes
    Mackelvie
  • Media

    copper alloy/nonferrous metal/metal/inorganic material

  • Technique

    Daguerreotype

    Silver print

    Monochrome photographic print

    Photographic techniques

  • Provenance Details
    From the Stokes Collection sold in 1854.
  • Public Access Text

    Unreversed daguerreotype (ie a mirror image) and therefore early, but unlikely to date to the invention of the process in 1839.

    The Bisson brothers started in 1841. Bisson's name was found on the copper plate upon close inspection.

    Mackelvie Collection Catalogue (1885) Item 271

    Mackelvie Collection Catalogue (1885) Item 836

    Catalogue attributed it to Louis Daguerre and gave the year 1839.

  • Copyright
    No known copyright restrictions
  • Credit Line
    Mackelvie Trustees, 21/11/1932
  • Last Update
    11 May 2023
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