- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by the Royal Microscopical Society. Formerly on loan from the Society to the Science Museum, London (their accession number 1989-1203); transferred to the Museum of the History of Science in 2005. Presented to the Royal Microscopical Society by A. Nachet in 1905.
- Primary inscriptions
- Each daguerreotype signed and dated by scratching on the daguerreotype surface outside bottom right of circular image, in the form 'L. Foucault | June 1844'. Captioned on the front of the mount: '6 Micro-Daguereotypes Blood, Milk, Corpuscle, Cristals, &c.. | made by L. Foucault in the year 1844 | signature and date on the right | Presented to the Royal microscopical Society | by A. Nachet. F.R.M.S. Paris December 1905'.
- Object type
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- Height: 311mm Width: 500mm
- Inventory No
- 11956
- Accession Number
- 2013-30
Description
Six daguerreotypes mounted beneath a card mat in a plain wooden frame. The daguerreotypes show through six oblong apertures, but the images on them are circular. They were cleaned and the ensemble sealed to conservation backing board in 1984 by B. Howarth-Loomes.
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