daguerreotype (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. Daguerreotypien Fotos Harrisburg, Pennsylvania um 1855 von Bruder und Schwester --- Zwei exzellent erhaltene Daguerreotypien (Sechstelplatte) von Junge und Mädchen, jeweils auf einem Stuhl sitzend. Es handelt sich um Catherine Kelker (* 24. Oktober 1849 in Harrisburg, gest. 9. Juni 1885 ebd.) und ihren jüngeren Bruder George Beatty Kelker (* 9. Januar 1852 in Harrisburg, gest. 24. März 1896 ebd.), der später Louisa Dickel (1857-1920) heiratete. Sie waren die Kinder von Immanuel Meister Kelker (1822-1880) und der Mary Ann, geb. Beatty (1825-1897), Tochter von George Washington Beatty (1781-1862), die beide auch aus Harrisburg stammten. --- Jeweils zeitgenössisch gerahmt hinter Glas; das Porträt des Mädchens in kleinem Schmuckkästchen (am Rand moderne handschriftliche Zuordnung "Catherine Kelker 1849-1885"), das des Jungen in einfachem Rahmen (rückseitig frei). --- Sehr scharfe, detailreiche Aufnahmen. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania um 1855. Originale Daguerreotypien eines anonymen Fotografen, in Schmuckkästchen bzw. Rahmen der Zeit (hinter Glas im Passepartout). Sechstelplatte; Bildausschnitt 7 x 6 cm; Format des Schmuckkästchens Rahmens 11,8 x 9 cm. Zustand: Rahmen leicht berieben, Daguerreotypien in sehr gutem Zustand.

The coat of arms, in red, black, yellow and blue, is carefully painted directly onto a 22 x 18 cm leaf removed from album. In fair condiion, on aged paper, with chipping and a small closed tear at foot affecting the motto ('VIRTUTIS FORTUNA COMES'). Above the motto is the quarterly coat of Wellesley and Colley, with a coronet above it, topped by the crest. Laid down in the top left-hand corner of the page is the 7.5 x 5.5cm photographic print of the engraving from a daguerreotype by Claudet, showing a seated Wellington, facing to his left, with his left hand curled round the arm rest of his chair. In fair condition, with slight wear to edges. This image is not present in the National Portrait Gallery collection, which does have a mezzotint version, published 1 May 1845, showing only Wellington's head and shoulders, said to be 'by Henry Thomas Ryall, published by James Watson, published by Goupil & Vibert, after Abraham Solomon, after Antoine Claudet'. Claudet's original photograph, taken in 1844, faced the other way, and again did not show hands and chair. In top right-hand corner of page, in contemporary hand: 'Master General of the Ordnance 1818. | Lord Warden of Cinque Ports. | Commander in Chief 1848. | First Lord of Treasury 1827 & 34 | Foreign Secretary in 1834.' Laid down on the reverse of the page is an engraving of the poet Thomas Haynes Bayley (1797-1839). See Image.

circa 25,5 x 21 cm. 1 leaf, text on both sides folded "Letter by the author Friedrich Noesselt who was professor for history at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Wroclaw. He is telling a "Sophie" about his sons and other acquaintances. Of particular interest are his informations about his son Albert, who is recorded in multiple contemporary publications as an inventor and "Mechanikus". In 1844 for instance he presented a levelling instrument, a galvanic battery and crystal lattices at the industrial exhibition in Berlin (cf. Neukrantz, A. F. Ausführlicher Bericht über die große, allgemeine deutsche Gewerbe-Ausstellung in Berlin im Jahre 1844. Berlin 1845, p. 282). Here Friedrich Noesselt says that Albert is giving up daguerreotypy as there are two others in Breslau who specialize in that field. Zygmunt Wielowiejski in his study about the beginnings of photography in Breslau does not mention Noesselt and can only speculate about the early years since 1839. The first recorded evidence he can find, is from this very year 1843 - "in 1843, Hermann Krone, who came from Breslau, and who later became a renowned daguerreotypist and photographer in Dresden, began experimenting with photography. At that time he was also studying at the University of Breslau and before he left the city for good in 1849, he made talbotypes and then daguerreotypes, of which nine have survived. In the same year, the first two professional daguerreotypists arrived in Breslau. Julius Brill was the first to open a studio. Later seven travelling daguerreotypists arrived in the city." (Zygmunt Wielowiejski. The beginnings of photography in Breslau / Zaczelo sie od dagerotypow. 2012, with english summary). - The letter by Friedrich Noesselt goes on to give a rather cruel account about the son of a common friend who apparently shot himself as a consequence of failed methods of education etc. - Important early testimony of the expansion of Daguerreotype in Eastern Europe, the relevant sentence: "Das Daguerrotypiren will er ganz einstellen, da zwei Andere sich hier damit beschäftigen." (He wants to give daguerreotype up completely as two others are occupied with that here). ".

*: 6. Portrait of a young woman wearing long gloves, encased, kept in a contemporary tooled leather holder, inside with red velvet lining, gilt ondulating frame. Ca. 1850. Holder size 95 x 78 mm.

*: 10. Paris, (imprimerie Firmin Didot), s.d. ( 1840), in-48°, 70 x 50 mm , 96 pp, with 12 full page illustrations. No title page ( as published). Publisher's cased binding in glazed paper with embossed gilt decoration on the front cover. Binding a bit dustsoiled but still a good copy. Very rare Christmas gift book ( livre d'étrennes ) published barely a year after the invention of the daguerrotype photograph. OCLC lists only two copies, with incomplete descriptions. The publication of this book is described in the bibliography of F. Denis '' Nouveau Manuel de bibliographie universelle'' , vol. 2 pp. 446. ( published in Paris by Encyclopédie Roret in 1857) ; and also in Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie '' Manuel bibliographique du Photographe Français '' item 10 on page 6 (published in Paris by A. Aubry in 1863).

(Paris, Bachelier), 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome IX, No. 8 a. 14. Pp. (249-) 282 a. pp. (417-) 436. Arago's rapport: Pp. 250-267 - Daguerre's letter: pp. 423-429. Both issues clean and fine. First printing of the first official and complete report of the invention of the "daguerreotype", the photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre. The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication "Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama", (1839). Together with Daguerre's letter to Arago in which he relates the process of heliography and describes his contract with Niépce to exploit the heliogrphis process. The Heliogravure was invented by Niépce.

London, Richard and John Taylor, 1840. Contemp. hcalf. A nic to spine at upper hinge. Hinges weakening (not loose). Gilt lettering to spine "Philosophical Magazine" - Vol.XVII. In: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Conducted by David Brewster et al.". Vol. XVII. A stamp to titlepage and a few other pages. Entire volume offered. VIII,552 pp. Draper'spaper: pp. 217-225. First printing of the famous paper in which Draper relates how he was able to made the first photographic portrait on a daguerreotype plate, giving an ennormously long exposure. The subject of the portrait, Draper's assistant, powdered his face with flour and sat in front of the camera for a half hour facing the sunlight.Draper stated that it is possible to make portraits in full sunlight, using mirrors as light reflectors. "But in the reflected sunshine, the eye cannot support the effulgence of the rays. It is therefore necessary to pass them through some blue medium, which shall abstract from them their heat and take away their offensive brilliancy. Ihave used for this purpose blue glass, and also ammoniaco-sulphate of copper, contained in a large trough of plate glass, the interstice being about an inch thick." (p. 217 in the paper offerd)."Draper first achieved wide celebrity for his pioneering work in photography. As early as 1837, while still in Virginia, he had followed the example of Wedgwood and Davy in making temporary copies of objects by the action of light on sensitized surfaces. When the details of Daguerre?s process for fixing camera images were published in various New York newspapers on 20 September 1839, Draper was ready for the greatest remaining challenge, to take a photographic portrait. A New York mechanic, Alexander S. Wolcott, apparently won the race by 7 October. But if Draper knew of this, he persisted in his own experiments and succeeded in taking a portrait not later than December 1839. His communication to the Philosophical Magazine, dated 31 March 1840, was the first report received in Europe of any photographer?s success in portraiture. The superb likeness of his sister Dorothy Catharine, taken not later than July 1840, with an exposure of sixty-five seconds, seems to be the oldest surviving photographic portrait."(DSB).The volume contains also Michael Faraday's importent letter to Gay-Lussac on induction in the first English version. "On Magneto-electric induction.", pp. 281-89 a. pp.356-366. (Originally published in French in "Annales de Chimie et Physique" in 1832.

Paris, Bachelier, 1839. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome VIII (No.1)+ IX, (No. 8) Entire issues offered with htitles and titlepages to both volumes. Pp. 1-36 + Pp. 249-282 and 1 lithographed plate. The papers: pp. 4-7 and pp. 250-267. A faint stamp to top of titlepages. A few brownspots to titlepages. First Edition of the official and complete report of the invention of the "daguerreotype", the photographic process invented by Louis Daguerre. Together with the preliminary report of the invention (OF JANUARY 7). The presentation by Arago preceeded Daguerre's own publication "Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama", (1839). "When the attempt to exploit the process of daguerreotype was unsuccessfull, Daguerre and Nièpce decided to offer their method to the government. Daguerre approached Francois Jean Arago, to whom he imparted, under the seal of secrecy his processes and those of Nicéphore Niépce. It was fortunate that Arago possessed such a great insight into the invention, which he received enthusiastically. He reported the invention of the daguerretype to the Academy of Sciences on January 7, 1839. The secrecy, however, was not observed very carefully, for the "Gazette de France" published a note abouit it on January 6, 1839, although without printing any details."(Eder "History of Photography").

Lithographie von Engelmann nach Bressler, um 1850, 10x8 cm.

Lithographie von Engelmann nach Bressler, um 1850, 7,5x10 cm.

P., 1839. In 4 demi-chagrin dos lisse orné, plats percaline. (4)-412 pp. Une des premières descriptions du Daguerréotype occupe les pp. 374 à 376 de ce volume. Il est illustré de 5 figures. [Voir Lécuyer, Histoire de la Photographie, p. 435].

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a mirror-like silvered surface over a copper plate (Daguerreobase website). Disderi obtained the rights to photograph the products and artworks at the Exposition as a distinguished daguerreotypist, but his lasting fame is that he took out the first patent for the carte de visite in 1854. Ironically, this inexpensive mass-produced paper photograph hastened the demise of these beautiful precursors.