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| Keywords: Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, St. Sulpice, Paris.jpg en Unlike William Henry Fox Talbot ™s paper negative process which allowed for multiple positives to be made from the same negative the daguerreotype process produced only a single example with each use In response to this limitation several processes were developed to reproduce daguerreotypes in ink Hippolyte Fizeau a scientist and daguerreotypist devised a method for etching directly into the copper daguerreotype plate which created a printing plate but destroyed the daguerreotype in the process The plate could then be used to make multiple prints on paper in permanent ink The process was not perfect however and the resulting prints often looked primitive compared to the refined surface and tonal depth of the original daguerreotype Nevertheless this print by Fizeau possesses an impressive amount of detail from the maze of lines in the stone-and-brick walls to the tiny tiles in the roofs Saint-Sulpice was one of Fizeau ™s favorite subjects in part because it was close at hand this view was probably taken from his own rooftop By lugging his heavy camera up the stairs Fizeau brought photography out of the studio and into the world ”and through his ink prints helped introduce the world to photography 1841 Photogravure object history exhibition history credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1946 269071 accession number 46 122 22 PD-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard 1841 in Paris Hippolyte Fizeau Historical images of Église Saint-Sulpice Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photogravure | ||||
