L'acropolis à Athènes / daguérreotype Lerebours ; Imp. de Bougeard ; Appert sc. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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L'acropolis à Athènes / daguérreotype Lerebours ; Imp. de Bougeard ; Appert sc.
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This Acropolis view began as a daguerreotype by Nicolas-Marie-Paymal Lerebours, and the engraver Appert turned it into plate 21 of *Excursions Daguerriennes*, published in Paris in 1842. Photographs could not yet be printed alongside text, so engravers translated daguerreotypes like this one into etched and aquatinted plates that printers could reproduce, then colored them by hand. Long exposures meant that moving crowds left no trace, so the ruins appear empty and timeless. The image records the hilltop temples as travelers of the period saw them, well before later excavation and restoration reshaped the site.
| Created / published | 1842 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and aquatint, color, with hand-coloring. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Etchings Hand-colored 1840-1850.Aquatints Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Excursions Daguerriennes. Paris: Rittner et Goupil, etc., 1842, plate 21. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours. |
| Subjects | Acropolis (Athens, Greece)--1840-1850. Archaeological sites--Greece--Athens--1840-1850. Temples--Greece--Athens--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,501 × 3,635 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223010 |
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