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Daguerreotype: Claudet stereo 1851-1867

  • Collection: Nicholas Burnett reference collection, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Type: Other
  • Deeplink: http://daguerreobase.org/en/type/317b5d1c-5a85-676a-58ec-72665525f6cf RDF Logo

Summary

Summary

Identification
Claudet stereo
Dated
Source
Begin
1851
End
1867
Image description
A family group portrait showing a couple and their three children. They are grouped around a table on which there is a toy(?), and the woman holds a stick pointing at a basket on a box which the smallest child is playing with. The woman wears a bonnet and cape and the man wears a dark jacket and stock round his collar. The two standing boys wear gowns with dark ribbons round the neck and the little girl is in a dress. They are in front of a window with curtains. The stereo image is in a leather slip case embossed with the Regent Street coat of arms, with a leather tongue to close.
Tags
portrait; Man; woman; couple; family; children; wave apparatus; curtain; window; table; bonnet; ribbons; gown; side parting; central parting; toys
Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Claudet
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06792/antoine-claudet
https://www.photolondon.org.uk/#/details?id=1237

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Object

Object

Subject location
City of Westminster
Identification
Claudet stereo
Dated
Source
Begin
1851
End
1867
Number of plates
2
Remarks general
Subject identification by Professor Steve Edwards.
Assessments
Provenance
Image description
A family group portrait showing a couple and their three children. They are grouped around a table on which there is a toy(?), and the woman holds a stick pointing at a basket on a box which the smallest child is playing with. The woman wears a bonnet and cape and the man wears a dark jacket and stock round his collar. The two standing boys wear gowns with dark ribbons round the neck and the little girl is in a dress. They are in front of a window with curtains. The stereo image is in a leather slip case embossed with the Regent Street coat of arms, with a leather tongue to close.
Subject name
Wheatstone, Charles; Wheatstone, Emma, nee West
Inscription
Printed Claudet label on the verso, Claudet stamped in gold on the slip case with the Regent Street coat of arms.
Keyword technique
daguerreotype
links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Claudet
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06792/antoine-claudet
https://www.photolondon.org.uk/#/details?id=1237
Stereo plates
Yes
Window shape
Arched
Housing shape
Rectangle
Collection
Identifier
Nicholas Burnett reference collection, United Kingdom
Creator
Name
Claudet, Antoine François Jean
notes
„Claudet betrieb sein Studio in London, war aber gebürtiger Franzose. Seit 1827 lebte er an der Themse, wo er sich als Importeur von technischem Glas (Scheiben und Glasstürze) einen Namen machte. Auf Anraten seines Freundes Lerebours nahm er 1839 Kontakt zu Daguerre auf. Er erlernte bei ihm die Technik und erwarb eine Lizenz für England. Dann importierte er Daguerreotypien nach London, wo sie als erste Lichtbilder am 15. Oktober 1839 dem Königspaar und im März 1840 der staunenden Öffentlichkeit in den Räumen der Royal Society vorgestellt wurden. Kurz nach Richard Beard eröffnete Claudet im Juni 1841 in London ein Atelier. Standort war ein Glashaus auf dem Dach der „Adelaide Gallery“. 1851 konnte Claudet aufgrund guten Geschäftsverlaufes in der Londoner Regent Street 107 ein neues Studio, den „Temple of Photographic“, einweihen.“ (Jochen Voigt: Spiegelbilder. Europäische und amerikanische Porträtdaguerreotypie 1840-1860, Chemnitz 2007, S. 127.) Sir Charles Barry, der das Parlament in Westminster errichtet hatte, baute Claudets neues Etablissement im Renaissancestil aus. (J.V.) Royal Warrant granted on the 9th of July 1855.
nationality
France
Assessment
Previous altering
Unknown
Treated
Unknown
Remarks
The lack of tarnish probably indicates that the plate has been cleaned in the fairly recent past.

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Housing

Housing

Mat
Color
Black
Decoration design
no decoration
Spacing paper
Painted
No
Texture
No
Present
Unknown
Painted
Unknown
Case
Rails decoration remarks
Cover
Rails
Decoration remarks
Present
Yes
Decoration present
No
Cushion present
No
Retainer
Present
No
Insert
Present
No
Interior tray retainer present
No
Rails present
No
Metal foil preserver present
No
Binding
Mat active
Unknown
Frame
 
Finishing paper
 
Backing
Recessed
Unknown
Access panel present
Unknown
Hanging system
Present
Unknown
Finishing paper
Unknown
Cover glass
Present
Yes
Painted
Yes
Strass
Unknown
Colour
Black
Decoration
None

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Plate

Plate

Number
1
Polishing lines
horizontal
Annotation
Remarks
The plate looks like it has been cleaned in the past. If so any colouring would have been removed.
Surface
Goldtoning present
Unknown
Coating present
Unknown
Applied coloring present
No
Securing
Securing retained by housing
Unknown

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Hallmark

Hallmark

Manufacturer
Present
Unknown
Partly visible
Unknown
Silver content
Present
Unknown
Combined
Unknown

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Comments

Comments

This is a portrait of Charles Wheatstone with his family and his 'wave apparatus'

Placed by Professor Steve Edwards on