Daguerreotype: 2003-5001/2/28089

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom i
Language: English
Type: European
Deeplink: http://daguerreobase.org/en/type/99db7bc4-b02b-2911-1c3f-b40b849b701d

Identification

2003-5001/2/28089

Dated

Source

Image description

Portrait of George Houghton born Sept 13th 1804. Half length portrait of a man with side parting and sideburns, wearing a dark stock, high collar, jacket and waistcoat in three quarter view.

Tags

man; waistcoat; stock; jacket; sideburns; side parting; watch chain

Links

http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Houghton_and_Ensign
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yVFdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA716&lpg=PA716&dq=georga+houghton+claudet&source=bl&ots=bzTcu8fwf0&sig=cfeOk7xFwXt78t9nbva_sP_0wfo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6oUMVa20IYLkatGIgZAM&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=georga%20houghton%20claudet&f=false
http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=display&login=houghtonco

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Object

Identification

2003-5001/2/28089

Dated

Source

Number of plates

Remarks general

Probably George Houghton who was partner to Claudet and founded Houghtons. Another view taken at the same sitting is number 28209. The pair may form a stereo pair for viewing in the Wheatstone stereo viewer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Claudet (Houghton's partner) states, 'By 1842 he had made stereo daguerreotypes for Sir Charles Wheatstone.' It seems likely that the sitter for such experimental plates would be somebody who happened to be around at the time. The absence of a typical Claudet, Anglo-American style housing also points towards these plates being intended for the Wheatstone stereo viewer.

Assessments

Provenance

Image description

Portrait of George Houghton born Sept 13th 1804. Half length portrait of a man with side parting and sideburns, wearing a dark stock, high collar, jacket and waistcoat in three quarter view.

Subject name

Houghton, George

Inscription

George Haughton born Sept 13th 1804.

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

links

Stereo plates

Window size

Height: 70 mm / 2.76 inch
Width: 56 mm / 2.2 inch

Housing size

Height: 118 mm / 4.65 inch
Width: 104 mm / 4.09 inch
Depth: 8 mm / 0.31 inch

Window shape

Oval

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: Royal Photographic Society Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom
Description: UK-INS-V&A - Royal Photographic Society Collection within the Victoria and Albert Museum

Attributed to

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

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Housing

Mat

Material

Metal

Color

Gold

Decoration design

texture

Spacing paper

Painted: No
Texture: No
Present: Unknown

Painted

Unknown

Case

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Cover

Rails

Decoration remarks

Binding

Frame

Finishing paper

Backing

Material

Cardboard with paper covering

description

Brown

Recessed

Unknown

Access panel present

Unknown

Hanging system

Present: Unknown

Finishing paper

Unknown

Cover glass

Present: Yes
Painted: Unknown
Strass: Unknown

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Plate

Polishing lines
Annotation

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Hallmark

No plate-mark information available for this record

Gallery

Rights on every image:: Creative Commons – Attribution Non-commercial, Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Before conservation