Daguerreotype lens

Made:: 1840 in Paris

maker:: Alphonse Giroux

Original Daguerreotype lens inscribed 'Le Daguerreotype Chez Alphe Giroux et Compe a Paris', with reversing mirror and fitted box, No. 168496, B216; c. 1840.

Details

Category:: Photographs

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1981-216

type:: lens

credit:: On loan from the Wellcome Trust

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Daguerreotype lens

Original Daguerreotype lens inscribed 'Le Daguerreotype Chez Alphe Giroux et Compe a Paris', c. 1840.

Measurements:: overall: 110 mm 130 mm,

Materials:: brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass

Object Number:: 1981-216 Pt1

type:: lens

Reversing mirror and fitted box

Reversing mirror and fitted box, No. 168496, B216 for original Daguerreotype lens inscribed 'Le Daguerreotype Chez Alphe Giroux et Compe a Paris', c. 1840.