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Genre/Form: | Heliography Portraits Photographic prints Photography |
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Named Person: | Georges d' Amboise; Georges d' Amboise |
Material Type: | Graphic, Picture |
Document Type: | Visual material, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicéphore Niépce |
OCLC Number: | 122492310 |
Notes: | Collection title supplied by cataloger. Photograph is on permanent display in the lobby of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. |
Description: | 2 items |
Contents: | Untitled 'point de vue', 1827. Heliograph on pewter, 16.7 x 20.3 x .15 cm (6 9/16 x 8 x 1/16 inches) -- Le Cardinal d’Amboise, after an engraving by Isaac Briot (French, 1585-1670), 1827. Heliogravure printed from a plate produced in 1826 [Musée Nicéphore Niépce, #MNN1975.149.2.5], 19.5 x 12.9 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/16 inches) (impression); 25.9 x 21.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 inches) (irregular sheet). |
Other Titles: | World's first photograph |
Abstract:
This collection contains two works, formerly in the collection of historians Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, by the French scientist and inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765-1833). One is an untitled camera photograph—or ‘point de vue’—made with Niépce’s héliographie process in 1827. From 1952 to 1963 it was promoted by the Gernsheims as “The World’s First Photograph.” The second object is a copy of an engraving, printed from a heliographic plate made in 1826.
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