Title(s)

Fotoreproducties van twee daguerreotypieën van de Wereldtentoonstelling in Londen in 1851
Two early daguerreotypes (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-3

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The photographs, from which above have been reproduced, were taken on silver-copper plates, at the opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (London). The right-hand photograph is of particular interest. The four figures in the front are Napoleon III., Queen Victoria, The Empress Eugenie, and the Prince Consort. (See chap. ii.)’

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous
• after photo by: anonymous

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 120 mm

What

• world fair, world exhibition

Where

• London

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)