Portrait of a Daguerreotypist Displaying Daguerreotypes and Cases
1845
- Medium
- Daguerreotype, hand-colored
- Dimensions
- 6.7 × 5.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-349172
This image can be considered among photography's first photographic advertisements. It presents a formally dressed man exhibiting nine different daguerreotypes grouped in a display frame. In his left hand he holds two encased daguerreotypes; two more closed cases lay on the table, which is draped with a floral cloth. He may have been the daguerreotypist of those images, presenting and promoting his own wares or an intermediary acting as a salesman for the daguerreotypist. Adapted from getty.edu, Interpretive Content Department, 2002.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1845 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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