Daguerreotype plate

Description

Daguerreotype plate, copper with protecting glass plate in front, showing picture of Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with Calton Jail in the middle distance

Museum reference

T.1938.104

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype plate

Production information

Unknown, Photographer

Date

1839 - 1855

Materials

Copper, Glass

Physical description

Copper, glass

Associations

Eponym: Daguerre
Depicted: Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe