Daguerreotype: 1876-524_3

Collection: National Media Museum, United Kingdom i
Language: English
Type: Other
Deeplink: http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/type/393d938b-5d39-3c3b-41f9-2f099553d14e

Identification

1876-524_3

Dated

Source

Image description

Half length portrait of a man, Leon Foucault, with dark moustache, right shoulder towards the camera. He sits in a chair with an upholstered back and arms. His left hand is inside his jacket, his right hand on his lap. He wears a dark jacket with broad lapels and cuffs, over white shirt and a dark neck-tie. Flesh is hand coloured. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light,discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope (although he did not invent it).

Tags

man; moustache; beard; shirt; jacket; cravat; chair; hand coloured; scientist; side parting

Links

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/214675/Leon-Foucault
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Foucault
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Kd5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA445&lpg=PA445&dq=duboscq+daguerreotypist&source=bl&ots=eskWV88J8O&sig=s9ekq7XZaPiOocsm0hgIPI1zdzI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P9KVVLeQCMSQ7AbJh4HoDg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=duboscq%20daguerreotypist&f=false

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Object

Subject location

Paris

Identification

1876-524_3

Dated

Source

Number of plates

Remarks general

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known nowadays for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light,discovered eddy currents, is credited with naming the gyroscope (although he did not invent it) and was a daguerreotypist. He worked with Duboscq, who took this stereo daguerreotype, and with Fizeau. Foucault took the first daguerreotype of the sun in 1845.

Assessments

Provenance

Image description

Subject name

Foucault, Leon

Inscription

Written on verso L. Foucault

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

links

Stereo plates

Yes

Window size

Height: 63 mm / 2.48 inch
Width: 53 mm / 2.09 inch

Housing size

Height: 87 mm / 3.43 inch
Width: 172 mm / 6.77 inch
Depth: 5 mm / 0.2 inch

Window shape

Oval

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: National Media Museum, United Kingdom
Description: UK-INS-NMeM

Creator

Name: Dubosq, Louis Jules
notes: Eléve, Gendre & Successeur
nationality: France

Assessment

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Housing

Mat

Material

Cardboard

Color

Gold

Spacing paper

Painted: No
Texture: No
Present: Unknown

Painted

Unknown

Case

Binding

Frame

Material: Paper
Colour: Black
Style: Rectangle

Finishing paper

Backing

description

Grey/brown paper on back

Label annotations

J DUBOSCQ, 21 RUE DE L'ODEON, au fond de la Cour 427 on another label.

Recessed

Unknown

Access panel present

Unknown

Hanging system

Present: Unknown

Finishing paper

Unknown

Cover glass

Present: Yes
Painted: Yes
Strass: Unknown
Colour: Black

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Plate

Plate size other

6 x 4¼ inches

Surface

Goldtoning present: Unknown
Coating present: Unknown
Applied coloring present: Unknown

Securing

Securing retained by housing: Unknown

Shape

Rectangle

Material

Silvered copper

Backplate surface

Copper

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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