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Nature Mort

Photograph
c. 1855 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

Stereoscopic daguerreotype of a still life vanitas display, with a skull, hourglass drawing compass, and a pair of spectacles resting on an open book. The daguerreotype plates are in a black mount with two rectangular arched windows. This is glazed in a passe-partout frame. A Carpenter and Westley label is on the verso of the frame.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Nature Mort (generic title)
  • The Sands of Time (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
Stereoscopic daguerreotype in a passe-partout frame
Brief description
Photograph by Thomas Richard Williams, 'Nature Mort' or 'The Sands of Time', stereo daguerreotype, c. 1855.
Physical description
Stereoscopic daguerreotype of a still life vanitas display, with a skull, hourglass drawing compass, and a pair of spectacles resting on an open book. The daguerreotype plates are in a black mount with two rectangular arched windows. This is glazed in a passe-partout frame. A Carpenter and Westley label is on the verso of the frame.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 72mm
  • Image width: 60mm
  • Frame height: 83mm
  • Frame width: 171mm
  • Frame depth: 3mm
Marks and inscriptions
CARPENTER / & / WESTLEY / OPTICIAN'S / 24 REGENT STT / LONDON. (Printed label on the verso of the frame.)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Production
Retailed by Carpenter and Westley.
Associated object
PROV.2484-2017 (RPS Group record)
Other numbers
  • XRP1476 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 2003-5001/2/20894 - Science Museum Group accession number
  • C7/D8 - RPS identifier - misc.
Collection
Accession number
RPS.607-2017

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Record createdJuly 11, 2017
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