Cromer's Amateur

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Still life, bouquet of flowers

ca. 1845
daguerreotype
sixth plate, 8.2 x 6.9 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 21824
76:0168:0068

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 72.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 53.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
"From Today Painting is Dead: Emergence of Photography During July Monarchy", US, NY, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, December - March 11, 1989.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(etched in copper) "S" (?) (in pencil) "Cromer's Amateur"

NOTES: Cataloged JB, updated 9/88.

SUBJECT: still life, floral