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Call Number:

PH-00537

Collection Name:

Collection de 28 vues de Paris prises au daguerreotype, gravures en taille douce sur acier

Creator:

Chamouin, Jean Baptiste Marie, b. 1768 (1768 (b.) - )

No. of Items:

29 items

Span Dates:

1845 (ca.)

Description:

Published album by Jean Baptiste Chamouin, titled Collection de 28 vues de Paris prises au daguerreotype, gravures en taille douce sur acier (Paris: Chamouin, 1842?), containing 29 lithographic views of Paris based on daguerreotypes. The volume is inscribed by Helmut Gernsheim: "28 views, of which 24 are Prises au Daguerreotype circa 1841; 3 are not specified and are from about 1855; 1 dates from about 1865. 1 coloured view loose."

Accession No(s):

964:0954:0001-0029; Gernsheim Collection.

Location(s):

f DC 707 C47 1842? HRC-P (964:0954:0001-0029)
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