Unidentified Artist

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Professor Charles' Experiment

ca. 1874
engraving
8.2 x 13.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 41122
72:0079:0089

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Tissandier, Gaston. --A History and Handbook of Photography Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier.-- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1876. Fig. 3.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 38.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil in French) "The marvels of photographie (?) Silhouettes on paper of silver salts."

NOTES: Catalogued 12-97, AHF. Circa 1780, Professor Charles captured the silhouettes of people and objects on photo-sensitive paper. However he did not have the means to fix the images. See Tissandier's Histoire de la Photographie for a complete account of his experiment.

SUBJECT: event, demonstration