Daguerreotype

Description

1/2 plate tinted daguerreotype, depicting a seated man, in a gold-embossed case, by Richard Beard, Beard's Photographic Institutions, 1852 - 1854

Museum reference

T.2023.44.2.1

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype

Production information

Beard, Richard, 1801 - 1885, Photographer
Beard's Photographic Institutions, Maker

Date

1852 - 1854

Materials

Copper, silver-plated, iodised, Chloride of bromide, Sodium thiosulphate, Metal

Physical description

Daguerreotype, half plate tinted, metal(?)

Associations

Howarth-Loomes Collection

Exhibitions

• Photography: A Victorian Sensation (19 Jun 2015 - 22 Nov 2015)
  National Museum of Scotland

Credit

The Bernard Howarth-Loomes Collection. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government from the estate of Ethel Alma Howarth-Loomes and allocated to National Museums Scotland, 2023.