Vue prise de l'entrée du Grand Canal à Venise / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Martens, 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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Vue prise de l'entrée du Grand Canal à Venise / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Martens, sc. comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vue prise de l'entrée du Grand Canal à Venise / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Martens, sc.
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This view looks down the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice, where the water opens from the lagoon past the domes and palazzo façades at the mouth of the canal. It is plate 47 of *Excursions Daguerriennes*, published in Paris in 1842, and it reproduces a daguerreotype by the optician Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours. Early photographs could not yet be printed alongside text, so engravers such as Martens translated them into etched and aquatinted plates, and the color was added by hand. The print is worth a look for that mix of a photographic source and skilled handwork.
| Created / published | 1842 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and aquatint, color, with hand-coloring. |
| Genre | City views 1840-1850.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 47. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours. |
| Subjects | Grand Canal (Venice, Italy)--1840-1850. Canals--Italy--Venice--1840-1850. Buildings--Italy--Venice--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,539 × 3,641 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223013 |
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