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Maurisset, Theodore
French (1803-1860)

TITLE ON OBJECT: La Daguerreotypomanie
PUBLISHED TITLE: Daguerreotypemania

December, 1839
lithograph with applied color
25.4 x 35.1 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 5598
80:0461:0003

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut & Gernsheim, Alison. --The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era.-- New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. pl. 29.//
Pollock, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- US, NY, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. p. 69.//
Rosenblum, Naomi. --A World History of Photography.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1984. p. 21.//
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 64.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Holiday Greetings from Photographers", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Corridor, December 8, 1987 - January 11, 1988.//
"From Today Painting is Dead: Emergence of Photography During July Monarchy", US, NY, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, December - March 11, 1989.//
"A Touch of Whimsy: Fanicful Decoration and the Camera as a Toy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, December 14, 1990 - May 5, 1991.//
"Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography", US, NY, New York November 3, 2000 - March 18, 2001.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed below image) "Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16. Maurisset La Daguerreotypomanie. Imp d'Aubert & Cie"

NOTES: Catalogued 8/87, SB, updated 10/90, MMC. Lithograph lampoons the coming of photography and the death of the arts.

SUBJECT: allegory, humor

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