Daguerreotype of a woman.

Daguerreotype of a woman.

Administrative / biographical background
The daguerreotype, named after it's inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860). Each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate.

Record Details

Item reference: PAR/249/4
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Creator: Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet of Shenstone
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London