Daguerreotype

Description

1/6 plate daguerreotype, depicting a seated midle-aged man with a mountain backdrop, framed for hanging, by Oliver Sarony, itinerant photographer, 1840s - 1850s

Museum reference

T.2023.44.2.32

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Daguerreotype

Production information

Sarony, Oliver, 1820 - 1879, Maker

Date

1840s - 1850s

Materials

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

Physical description

1/6 plate daguerreotype, framed

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.