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Photographic Technologies

Learn more about the photographic techniques available in the mid-19th century

    ANTOINE FRANÇOIS JEAN CLAUDET (1797-1867)

    Double portrait of Prince Frederick William of Prussia (1831-88)

    1852

    Stereoscopic daguerreotype | 6.8 x 5.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2932502

    This stereoscopic daguerreotype, dating from the early 1850s, depicts an unknown man. The work may have been bought as an example of the emerging stereoscopic technology.

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