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"Daguerreotype Child With Doll In Union Case Set Pinchbeck"

Child with his doll, finely dressed. Sixth plate in its Pinchbeck-set Union Case. The daguerreotype is the first photographic process developed by Nicéphore Niépce then Louis Daguerre and offered to the whole world (except in the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence this effect. characteristic mirror. In the 19th century they were also poetically called “the mirrors that remember”. Given the cost and technical difficulties, it will only be used for around ten years in France and will be replaced by other processes. However, there are late daguerreotypes, particularly American or Anglo-Saxon.
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