Excursions daguerriennes: vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Lasiauve, Eugène de

Contributors

• • Contributor 

    Lerebours, N.P.

Publisher

• Publication

  Paris: Rittner et Goupil, Lerebours, Bossange, 1840-1843

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• Subject

  • As subject 

    topografie
  • As subject 

    fotografisch geïllustreerde boeken (vorm)
  • As subject 

    monumenten
  • As subject 

    plaatwerken (vorm)

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Aquatinten naar daguerreotypieën van N.P. Lerebours ; teksten van Eugène de Lasiauve ... [et al.]
  • One of the first books with illustrations based closely on daguerreotypes, though they were copied by the hand of an artist. Excursions Daguerriennes is also a monument in the history of photomechanical printing, which translates the daguerreian or photographic image into multiple reproductions printed in permanent ink. The 1842 edition marks the first publication of prints made by a complex process of electro-etching invented by Hippolyte Fizeau in which the daguerreotype itself becomes the printing plate. One example is the view of a bas-relief from Notre Dame de Paris. These prints mark the first appearance in book form of illustrations created by a photo-mechanical process.” – Envisioning Paradise, p. 35. Gernsheim explains the process in more detail: “In 1842 the French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-96) perfected his method of etching daguerreotypes by depositing chloride of gold on the highlights, which enabled the plate to bear repeated etching in the dark parts (of the bare silver). Strengthening the printing plate with a deposit of copper enabled him to pull at least ten times as many impressions as Berres, for when the copper deposit had worn off, the plate could be electrotyped again. Fizeau’s prints show excellent half-tone, which was supplemented by aquatint grain when necessary. From the fact, however, that only two (sic) of his etched daguerreotypes were used in Excursions Daguerriennes it seems probable that the constant renewal of the plate was troublesome and expensive. Nevertheless, Fizeau’s results were the most successful of the early photo-etching methods, and the process in its final form was patented in England by A. Claudet in November 1843.” - L. J. M. Daguerre (1968), p. 110 (Charles Wood, cat. 166)

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