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 THE DAGUERREOTYPE: AN ARCHIVE OF SOURCE TEXTS, GRAPHICS, AND EPHEMERA


  The research archive of Gary W. Ewer regarding the history of the daguerreotype

TEXTS FROM 1840
1840
Ewer archive: B8400001
author name: Louis Huart and Charles Philippon, edit.
text title: "Daguerre"
publication title: Galerie de la Presse, de la Littérature et des Beaux-Arts
notes: Included in the volume is this biographical text of Daguerre, accompanied by a full-page lithograph portrait. (Original French language text.)
keywords: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
4 January 1840
Feuilleton du Journal
de la Librairie
(Paris)
Ewer archive: P8400014
text title: "Décisions Judiciaires en Matière de Librairie"
notes: A summary of a lawsuit brought by Giraldon against Alphonse Giroux regarding the issuance of Daguerre’s instructional manual.
keywords: Giraldon, Alphonse Giroux, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
15 January 1840
Alexander’s Weekly Messenger
(Philadelphia)
Ewer archive: P8400008
author name: Edgar Allan Poe
text title: "The Daguerreotype"
notes: A description of the new art, marveling at its "supremeness of its perfection."
keywords: Edgar Allan Poe
February 1840
Knickerbocker (New York)
Ewer archive: P8400010
text title: "The Daguerreotype"
notes: A very brief article regarding Gouraud's exhibition of daguerreotypes and lectures in New York.
keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud
8 February 1840
Albion (New York)
Ewer archive: N8400001
text title: "Daguerreotype"
notes: A notice by François Gouraud regarding his soon-closing lectures and exhibition in New York.
keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud
26 February 1840
(manuscript transcription)
Ewer archive: M8400001
author name: Thomas Cole
notes: A few comments by this american artist regarding the daguerreotype.
keywords: Thomas Cole, William Althorpe Adams
March 1840
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
Ewer archive: P8400011
author name: Andrew Fyfe
text title: "On Daguerreotype"
notes: A technical discussion of the daguerreotype.
keywords: Andrew Fyfe
March 1840
Southern Literary Messenger
Ewer archive: P8400007
author name: Nugator (St. Leger Landon Carter)
text title: "Pictures by the Sun"
notes: Perhaps the first use of the daguerreotype as a metaphor in American prose.
keywords: St. Leger Landon Carter, Nugator
4 March 1840
(manuscript)
Ewer archive: S8400002
author name: François Fauvel Gouraud
notes: The invitation issued by François Gouraud for a private showing in Boston of the daguerreotypes brought with him from France.
keywords: François Gouraud, François Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Treadwell, Edward Everett
9 March 1840
Daily National Intelligencer
(Washington, D.C.)
Ewer archive: N8400003
notes: A notice of exhibition of daguerreotypes and lectures explaining the process.
keywords: David G. Seixas
17 March 1840
Daily National Intelligencer
(Washington, D.C.)
Ewer archive: N8400004
text title: "Daguerreotype"
notes: A notice (dated 14 March 1840) discussing the daguerreotypes and lectures of Seixas.
keywords: David G. Seixas
26 March 1840
Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot
Ewer archive: N8400002
author name: François Gouraud
text title: "Manner of Making Portraits by the Daguerreotype"
notes: An important article by François Gouraud providing some historical background and his methods of daguerreian portraiture. This text was subsequently incorporated in his pamphlet manual. (See F8400001)
keywords: François Gouraud, François Jean-Baptiste Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud
1840 (after March 26)
Ewer archive: F8400001
author name: Françcois Fauvel-Gouraud
title: Description of the Daguerreotype Process, or a Summary of M. Gouraud’s Public Lectures, according to the Principles of M. Daguerreotype. With a Description of a Provisory Method for Taking Human Portraits
notes: Perhaps the first stand-alone manual published in America. The historical narrative regarding daguerreian portraiture is especially informative.
keywords: François Gouraud, François Jean-Baptiste Fauvel-Gouraud, Francois Gouraud, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud
April 1840
Godey's Lady's Magazine
Ewer archive: P8400002
notes: a brief notice regarding the excellence of the daguereotypes being made by Robert Cornelius, and a reference to something of his personal life.
keywords: Robert Cornelius, François Gouraud, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
11 April 1840
(manuscript)
Ewer archive: S8400001
author name: George Fuller
notes: A letter from George Fuller to his father, Aaron Fuller, in which he discusses the purchased of apparatus from François Gouraud with a view to starting a daguerreotype portrait business.
keywords: George Fuller, François Gouraud
24 April 1840
(published 1864)
Ewer archive: B8640002
author name: Samuel F. B. Morse (in title published by Marcus Root)
book title: The Camera and The Pencil
notes: Root provides an extract of a speech by Samuel F. B. Morse at the National Academy of Design, 24 April 1840.
keywords: Samuel F. B. Morse
July 1840
American Repertory (New York)
Ewer archive: P8400013
author name: John W. Draper
text title: "Remarks on the Daguerreotype"
notes: A paper by John W. Draper describing various experiments and observations of the of daguerreotype process.
keywords: John William Draper
22 August 1840
Literary Gazette (London)
Ewer archive: P8400005
notes: A brief text regarding Hippolyte Fizeau and his use of gold chloride to strengthen and tone the daguerreotype image.
keywords: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, gold chloride, chlorure of gold
22 August 1840
Literary Gazette (London)
Ewer archive: P8400005
notes: A brief text regarding Hippolyte Fizeau and his use of gold chloride to strengthen and tone the daguerreotype image.
keywords: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, gold chloride, chlorure of gold
September 1840
Philosophical Magazine
and Journal of Science

Ewer archive: P8400001
author name: John W. Draper
text title: "On the Process of Daguerreotype, and its application to taking Portraits from the Life"
notes: A detailed account of Draper's experiments, findings, processes, and his methods of taking portraits.
keywords: John William Draper, Alexander S. Wolcott, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, John Herschel, John T. Towson
5 September 1840
Literary Gazette (London)
Ewer archive: P8400006
notes: A text of some length describing Berres' success in modifying a daguerreotype for use as a printing plate.
keywords: Joseph Berres, Alfred Donné
7 November 1840
New-York Mirror
Ewer archive: P8400003
text title: "Drawing and the Daguerréotype"
notes: A brief notice of Madame Guillet's use of daguerreotypes as the basis for painted portrait miniatures.
keywords: Madame Guillet
12 December 1840
Literary Gazette (London)
Ewer archive: P8400004
author name: John F. Goddard
text title: "Valuable Improvement in Daguerréotype"
notes: The first published account of the use of bromine to accelerate the sensitivity of the daguerreotype plate.
keywords: John F. Goddard, bromine of iodine, bromine
15 December 1840
Art-Union (London)
Ewer archive: P8400015
author name: "An Amateur"
text title: "The Daguerreotype"
notes: An informative account of an amateur's experience with the daguerreotype process.
keywords: “An Amateur”, Alfred Donné