Frame Containing Six Photographs (Daguerreotypes, Photomicrographs) of Microscopical Specimens, by J. B. L. Foucault, 1844 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 11956 | ||||||||||
| Object Type: | Object | ||||||||||
| Persons: |
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (Photographer) | ||||||||||
| Date Created: | 1844 | ||||||||||
| Subject Classification(s): | Photography | ||||||||||
| Accession Number: | 2013-30 | ||||||||||
| 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'. | ||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Royal Microscopical Society Manuscripts | ||||||||||
| Material(s): |
Copper Card Glass Wood | ||||||||||
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