Le colisée à Rome / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Himely sculps. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare historic print captures Le colisée à Rome / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Himely sculps. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Le colisée à Rome / daguérreotype, Lerebours ; Himely sculps.
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The Colosseum stands here as a plate from *Excursions Daguerriennes*, a volume of views made from daguerreotypes by the Paris optician Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours. Because early daguerreotypes needed long exposures, engravers such as Himely reworked them by hand into etchings and aquatints, and this copy has been colored by hand. Built under the Flavian emperors in the first century CE, the amphitheater was one of Rome's most recognizable ruins by the 1840s, and the plate shows how the new photographic process was used to document it for a wide public.
| 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 35. Print based on daguerreotype by N. P. Lerebours. |
| Subjects | Colosseum (Rome, Italy)--1840-1850. Archaeological sites--Italy--Rome--1840-1850. Amphitheaters--Italy--Rome--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,515 × 3,635 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223012 |
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