Proclamation of the Army of July
Photograph
1859 (photographed)
1859 (photographed)
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Crowd of workmen on a cobbled street looking at a poster on a wall with an apparent proclamation about the sending of the French Imperial army to the northern states of Italy to aid in the fight against Austria.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Phototype (Joubert's process) |
| Brief description | Phototype by Camille Silvy entitled "Proclamation of the Army for Italy", showing a group of men crowding around a posted notice. Paris, 1859. |
| Physical description | Crowd of workmen on a cobbled street looking at a poster on a wall with an apparent proclamation about the sending of the French Imperial army to the northern states of Italy to aid in the fight against Austria. |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100 ‘A History of Photography’, 2014-2015, label text:
Camille Silvy (1835–1910)
Proclamation of the Army for Italy
1859
Parisian workmen examine the Order of the Day sent by Emperor Napoleon III to his army. It instructs the troops to drive the Austrians out of Italy. Although the image looks like a news photograph, Silvy probably staged the scene. The image was later reproduced by Mr F. Joubert, a French engraver and inventor of the phototype, a photo-mechanical process for the rapid reproduction of photographs.
Phototype
Museum no. Ph.230-1982
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| Object history | Presented by Mr F Joubert to the subscribers of the Photographic Journal, Lon. 15th Jan 1860. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Coe, Brian & Haworth-Booth, Mark. A Guide to Early Photographic Printing Processes. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983. |
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| Accession number | PH.230-1982 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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