Daguerreotype: FAU120 1843-06-17-1844

Collection: Nasjonalbiblioteket, Norway i
Language: Norwegian
Type: European
Deeplink: http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/type/61a8b689-7d3c-41d6-fdce-f98ab7cc3446

Identification

FAU120

Dated

Source
Begin: 1843-06-17
End: 1844

Image description

Utsikt over takene og pipene fra Christiania sentrum mot Slottet. Sannsynligvis fotografert i 1843. Taket og fasaden på Slottet ble bygget om i 1845. På platen gjengis motivet speilvendt. / View over the roofs and chimneys from the city center towards the Royal Palace in Christiania (now Oslo). The building is seen before major changes to the facade and the roof have been carried out in 1845. The plate shows a mirrored view of the motif.

Tags

chimney; piper; utsikter; view; cityscape; byprospekter; testmann; kvadraturen

Links

http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/det-eldste-bildet-av-oslo-noensinne-1.11457660

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Object

Subject location

Oslo

Identification

FAU120

Dated

Source
Begin: 1843-06-17
End: 1844

Remarks general

Testman ankom Christiania med dampskip fra Kjøbenhavn den 17 juni 1843 og skulle bli i byen en tid for å daguerreotypere (se: Ny Hermoder, Bind 5 hefte 23, Christiania 1843). Det er to andre norske fotografer som fotograferte Slottet før Testman. Den første var O.F. Knudsen i 1841 og H.T. Winther som publiserte sitt prospect som litografi i Ny Hermoder bind 5 hefte 21 i Juni 1843. Testman arrived on board a steamer from Copenhagen on the 17th of June to stay in town for some time and make daguerreotype portraits. Both O.F. Knudsen (1841) and H.T. Winther (1843) photographed the the Royal Palace before him but these photographs seem not to have survived. Winther's lithograph was published in the week of Testmans arrival (see: Ny Hermoder, 5 bind 23 hefte, Christiania 1843).

Assessments

Provenance

Title

Kongeslottet i Christiania

Image description

Subject name

Inscription

Påskrift bakside / handwriten on back: "Kongeslottet i Christiania". Trykk passepartout / printed on mat: "TESTMAN fecit"

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

links

http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/det-eldste-bildet-av-oslo-noensinne-1.11457660

Stereo plates

Window size

Height: 65 mm / 2.56 inch
Width: 83 mm / 3.27 inch

Housing size

Height: 102 mm / 4.02 inch
Width: 127 mm / 5 inch
Depth: 4 mm / 0.16 inch

Window shape

Octagon

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: Nasjonalbiblioteket, Norway
Description: National Library of Norway

Creator

Name: Testman, Peter Otto
notes: Born in Norway, moved to Denmark as a child, moved back to Norway in 1827 to study at the University in Oslo (Christiania), returend to Denmark probably in the 1830s. Exhibited daguerreotypes in Copenhagen i 1844 but earned his living as starch manufacturer.
nationality: Denmark; Norway

Assessment

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Housing

Mat

Material

Paper

Color

Gold

Decoration design

line decoration

Spacing paper

Painted: No
Texture: No
Present: Unknown

Painted

Unknown

Case

Rails decoration remarks

Cover

Rails

Decoration remarks

Binding

Frame

Finishing paper

Backing

Material

Paper

description

blue

Recessed

Unknown

Access panel present

Unknown

Hanging system

Present: Unknown

Finishing paper

Unknown

Cover glass

Present: Yes
Painted: No
Strass: Unknown

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Plate

Plate size other: Sirkel og to rette sider, diameter på sirkelen ca 97 mm / Circle and two straight sides, circle diameter ca 97 mm.
Polishing lines
Annotation

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Hallmark

No plate-mark information available for this record

Gallery

Rights on every image:: The Public Domain Mark (PDM)

Before conservation