Opening: $1,800 Hammer Price: $1,800 SOLD Skylight Gallery 17 November 2003

Quarter plate Fizeau-process daguerreotype etched for printing, by Louis Armand Hippolyte Fizeau, early 1840s.   ( Inventory# gc37 )

Fizeau was a noted pioneer not only for his daguerreotype gilding process but also for the experiments in the early 1840s for producing printing plates from specially etched daguerreotypes. A quantity of his experimental plates survived as loose (unhoused) plates.

This quarter-plate image was given a mild electrolytic cleaning and is secured in a modern archival housing.

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