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