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Das Daguerreotyp und das Diorama

Author: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787–1851)
Lithograph(s) by: Peter Herwegen (German, 1814–1893)
Lithograph(s) by: Friedrich Federer (German, died in 1853)
Publisher: J. B. Metzler (German, 19th century)
1839
Place of Publication: Stuttgart, Germany

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with two lithographs
Dimensions Overall: 19 x 12.8 x 0.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR172
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographsIllustrated books
Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1839

Catalogue Raisonné Boni, Photographic Literature, p. 67, no. 21
Description(Stuttgart: J. B. Wetzler, 1839) Octavo; 67 pp., plus 2 folding plates; contemporary[?] half brown morocco, green pastepaper boards.

Illustrations of early photographic apparatus.
ProvenanceLeihbibliothek von Wittwe Kaatzer, Aachen (book label); Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston (1837-1900, first print curator at MFA), by whom given to MFA, October 20, 1898.