Christie's is offering the Yann Maillet collection of daguerreotypes online until 26 June. The collection includes many important daguerreotypes from 1839 including images from such key figures as Samuel Morse, Robert Cornelius, John Ruskin, Platt D. Babbitt, Henry Fitz Jr., Plumbe, Moreau, Durand, Eynard, Plumier, Francis Grice, Bogardus, Helsby, and more than two dozen plates by Southworth & Hawes, representing the process across north and south America and Europe.
Of particular note to BPH are several daguerreotypes from Beard patentees, three views of Florence by John Ruskin, c.1846, and two views of a half-timbered building which BPH has identified as the Market House, Ledbury, Herefordshire.
See the auction here
Images: top: lot 82. Unknown photographer(s), Half-timbered building, [Market House, Ledbury, Herefordshire], c.1846; right: lot 32. John Ruskin San Miniato al Monte, Florence, c.1846
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