COPERNICAN ARMILLARY SPHERE: CONJONCTION OF PORTRAITS

COPERNICAN ARMILLARY SPHERE:

Comet Peltier, 1936, n° 3 (detail)

CONJONCTION OF PORTRAITS

Special transmission: Zonamaco Foto 2018 e Daguerrian Revolution followed the Copernician three centuries later “Planétaire copernicien” (Copernican Armillary Sphere), Émile Bertaux Invitation to Friday's Lincoln Long Lost Daguerreotypes Conference (in Spanish) American, French and British early portraits, Zonamaco Mexico, stand B-316 Previous transmissions can be found at:

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Fifteen scores later, the Daguerreian Revolution was the paradigm shift from the classical representation of Nature and Human faces, formulated by Niépce some time before 1827 and refined by several gentlemen until the public announcement of 19 August 1839.

When the first photographic processes were invented and developped by Niépce and his followers in Europe, the photographic portrait was really born in America circa 1840. Robert Cornelius in Philadelphia and John Draper are the central figures. We will present 17 early daguerrian portraits on stand B-316.

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The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, formulated

by Nicolaus Copernic some time before 1514 and refined until the publishing of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1543.

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“Planétaire copernicien” (Copernican Armillary Sphere), Ateliers Bertaux, c. 1867

Still armil on a mahogany base,510x410mm, six planets mounted on curved arms, the Earth (represented by a printed and coloured paper globe) and the two lower planets mounted on a gear rectangle that rotates around the Sun. The Moon has its own inclined orbit. Provenance : Henri Gaston de Bousquet de Florian (1866-1944.

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United States of America

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circle of Robert Cornelius (1809-1893) Philadelphia, circa 1840

1/6 plate daguerreotype, 71x64 mm, original case, gold rectangular paper mat, corduroy pad. One of the oldest photographic portraits preserved.

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circle of John William Draper (1811-1882) Portrait of a New-Yorker, circa 1840

1/4 plate daguerreotype, 102x81 mm, vintage gold rectangular paper mat and case

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Daguerreian portrait of three children Probably Philadelphia, circa 1843 1/4 plate tinted daguerreotype, 105x80 mm, original gold rectangular paper mat

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Mathew Brady (1822–1896) Portrait of a Man, New York, c. 1845 1/6 plate daguerreotype, 80x67 mm, early model Brady signed case.

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Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Philadelphia, c. 1845 1/6 plate daguerreotype, 78x68 mm, olive pad, red liner

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William V. Prentice Savannah, Georgia, circa 1852

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1/6 plate daguerreotype, 80x69 mm, original case, name in red velvet pad. (PIC ID: 369325).

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Bostonian Daguerreian Gallery Portrait of a Young Lady, November 1861

Oval 1/6 plate daguerreotype, 65x55 mm, oval case.

A limpid image, fine quality of the last moments of the process.

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Engraved portrait nailed on a wooden block, Evocation of Major General Zachary Taylor, circa 1850

1/6 plate daguerreotype, 82x70 mm, Scovill’s hallmark. Taylor rose to the rank of major general during Mexican–American War. As a Whig party nominee, he was elected 12th President of the United States, serving March 1849 - July 1850.

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Attr. to Luis Garcia Hevia (1816-1887) Manuel José Mosquera, Arzobispo de Bogotá, circa 1851

1/2 plate daguerreotype, 140x108 mm, original leather case, 200x168 mm, decorated paper mat similar to Garcia Hevia’s known mounts n BLAA, Bogotá.

Manuel José Mosquera (1800-1853) died in exile due to his fierce opposition to his brother, President General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera (1798-1878).

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France

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Louis-Auguste Bisson (dit Bisson aîné, 1814–1876) Auguste Pierlot, Napoleonic war veteran, circa 1843

1/6 plate daguerreotype, 88x55 mm, original paper mount, photographer’s dry stamp on mount, identificationon verso, ink.

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Leroy. Portrait of A. Hesler France ?, circa 1846

1/6 plate daguerreotype, 80x68 mm, French paper and wood frame, signed and titled, pencil, on mount. Another similar portrait with pencil signature in George Eastmann House, described by, Janet E. Buerger, French Daguerreotypes.

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard-Lullin (1775-1863) Grandchildren Marie & Henri , Paris, May 1847 1/9 plate , 71x61 mm, modern glass, original label verso

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Circle of Charles Cristofle (1805–1863) Portrait of a Weaythy Man, Paris, circa 1855 Full Cristofle plate daguerreotype, 215x165 mm, on elerctroless silver plated plate, original brass frame

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England

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John Frederick Goddard Portraits of Siblings, London, circa 1843

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1/9 plate daguerreotypes, 61x50 mm, original cases, one plate signed on copper verso. John Frederick Goddard was Richard Beard's Main Operator.

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John Frederick Goddard Portraits of Same Siblings four years later, London, circa 1847 1/9 plate daguerreotypes, 61x50 mm, original cases. John Frederick Goddard was Richard Beard's Main Operator.

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Richard Beard (1801–1885) Painted Portrait, London, c. 1846

1/6 plate daguerreotype, 87x75 mm, case with glided advertisement on bottom side “Beard’s Photographic Institution”

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