Daguerreotype: RP-F-2004-246 1847-04-01-1852-07

Collection: Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
Language: Dutch; Flemish
Type: Anglo-American
Deeplink: http://daguerreobase.org/en/type/53bdafed-891c-d66f-6e81-98f2f57bf09b

Summary

Identification

RP-F-2004-246

Dated

Source: Dates when at this studio but before second studio added.
Begin: 1847-04-01
End: 1852-07

Image description

Portret van een lachend meisje, Edith Abadam (?)

Tags

portrait; child

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Object

Identification

RP-F-2004-246

Dated

Source: Dates when at this studio but before second studio added.
Begin: 1847-04-01
End: 1852-07

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Remarks general

Inscriptie: gestempeld (achterzijde cassette); Window size (HxW): binnenmaat passepartout

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Provenance

Image description

Portret van een lachend meisje, Edith Abadam (?)

Subject name

Abadam, Edith

Inscription

DAGUERREOTYPE INSTITUTION / J.E. MAYALL / 433, WEST STRAND

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

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Window size

Height: 88 mm / 3.46 inch

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Oval

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands

Creator

Name: Mayall, John Jabez Edwin
notes: John Jabez Edwin Mayall erlernte 1840 die Daguerreotypie bei Dr. Paul B. Goddard in Philadelphia. Zwischen 1845 und 1846 arbeitete er dort in Partnerschaft mit dem bedeutenden Daguerreotypisten Samuel Van Loan. Dies sollte jedoch nur kurz dauern, denn schon im kommenden Jahr übersiedelte er nach London und eröffnete dort ein Atelier. In kurzer Zeit avancierte er zu einem der wichtigsten Photographen Englands. 1851 machte er mit Mammut-Daguerreotypien vom Londoner Kristallpalast von sich reden und errang auf der Weltausstellung eine Goldmedaille für diese Aufnahmen. Mayall, John Jabez Edwin Mayall, John Jabez Edwin Born in Oldham 1813. Died 06/03/1901. STUDIOS: 1. Lowther Arcade, 433 West Strand, Westminster April 1847 - May 1855. Aka American Daguerreotype Institution, run by ‘Professor Highschool’. Managed by John Edwin Mayall 1848 - 1852. 2. 224 Regent Street, Westminster July 1852 - 1866. Succeeded by John & Edwin Mayall. Managed by John Jabez Edwin Mayall 1852 - 1866. 3. 226 Regent Street, Westminster September 1856 - 1866. Managed by Dr Bushnell in 1860s. 4. 15 Argyll Place, Regent Street, Westminster 1858 - 1866. New suite of rooms opened November 1851. LITERATURE: Daguerreotype Institution mentioned in The Literary Gazette, April 10 1847 pp 280 - 281. “Professor Highschool of Philadelphia is about to open in the Strand a daguerreotype establishment…” It also mentions various portraits of famous people and views of Niagara Falls so some plates will pre-date this date. Employed Mansion as colourist October 1847 (previously employed by Kilburn). Crayon daguerreotypes advertised IN Times October 1850. Crayon daguerreotypes patent March 1853 (Athenaeum advert August 13 1853). 30 views of Great Exhibition advert IN Times September 15 1851. Great Exhibition 1851 award Class 10 No 291 (pp 239 - 240). Member of the Photographic Society (later The Royal Photographic Society) from 1857. Founder member of Solar Club February 1866. Fellow of Chemical Society. Fellow of Royal Microscopical Society. Exhibited own photos 1848. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Catalogue of daguerreotype panoramas, portraits of eminent persons etc. London, Daguerrotype Institution, 1848. Gernsheim, Incunabula 686; IN Humphrey's Journal Vol 4 October 1 1852 p 183 (Mayall's Regent Street studio, reprinted from Liverpool Mail); Humphrey's Journal Vol 5 February 1 1853 pp 313 - 314 (letter dated December 30 1852); Humphrey's Journal March 15 1853 (by Helios); Photography. Henry Morley & William Henry Wills. Photography. IN Household Words Vol 7 March 19 1853 pp 54 - 61 (chiefly on Mayall); Prospectus for Mayall's Daguerrotype Portrait Galleries. IN Reynold's Miscellany April 16 1853; T A W Buckley.

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Cover glass

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Gallery

Rights on every image:: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

Before conservation