Introduction to the History of Photography

Daguerre - The Effect of Fog and Snow Seen through a Ruined Gothic Colonnade, 1826 Oil on canvas, L. J. M. Daguerre, in Gerard Levy Collection Reproduced in Panoramania! by Ralph Hyde, London: Trefoil Publications / Barbican Art Gallery 1988, catalogue item No.99 on p.119 with colour illustration on p. 168 source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Ticket signed by Daguerre in 1830 for complimentary visit of two persons to his Diorama in Paris Reproduced from H. & A. Gernsheim L. J. M. Daguerre , fig. 26, Secker & Warburg: London 1956 source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Photographed by R. D. Wood (July 2001) The diorama painted by Daguerre in 1842 in the church at Bry-sur-Marne, poorly surviving there after 159 years. source: The Diorama: some images compiled by R. Derek Wood http://www.midley.co.uk/ Diorama by Daguerre in the church at Bry-sur-Marne c. 1840 (in process of restorati...

Contemporary painting of the construction of a Panorama Rotunda. c.1830 note the 'vellum' in the upper right of the image source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html Cross section of Robert Barker's Panorama, Leicester Square, London, 1789 source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html Panorama of Edinburgh from the top of St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile Robert Barker, c.1787, 2.5m x 0.3m (model) source: http://www.acmi.net.au/aic/PANORAMA.html