Daguerreotype

Description

1/6 plate tinted daguerreotype, depicting a man wearing a suit, by Cornelius Jabez Hughes of Glasgow, c. 1850 - 1856

Museum reference

T.2023.44.2.15

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype

Production information

Hughes, Cornelius Jabez, 1819 - 1884, Photographer
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1850 - 1856

Materials

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

Physical description

1/6 plate tinted daguerreotype, 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.