Wounded Soldier
Photograph
20 October 1842 (photographed)
20 October 1842 (photographed)
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Daguerreotype of a posed tableau of a woman and child bringing food to a wounded soldier, seated with his head against a pillow. This daguerreotype is in a cream card mount in a glazed passe-partout frame, that has been housed in a pinchbeck case designed by Thomas Wharton.
Object details
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| Title | Wounded Soldier (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case. |
| Brief description | Photograph by an unknown photographer (Beard Patentee), Wounded Soldier, daguerreotype, 1842. |
| Physical description | Daguerreotype of a posed tableau of a woman and child bringing food to a wounded soldier, seated with his head against a pillow. This daguerreotype is in a cream card mount in a glazed passe-partout frame, that has been housed in a pinchbeck case designed by Thomas Wharton. |
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| Gallery label | Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)
The invention of the daguerreotype was announced in France in 1839. Almost immediately, it was employed to record not only the likenesses of people and places, but also staged scenarios suggestive of narrative. This sentimental depiction of a woman and child tending to a wounded soldier was most likely set up in a British daguerreotypist’s studio.
Marta Weiss |
| 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. |
| Object history | Published in V&A Publications/Thames and Hudson 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' 2018, by Marta Weiss |
| Associated object | PROV.2484-2017 (RPS Group record) |
| Bibliographic reference | Published in V&A Publications/Thames and Hudson 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' 2018, by Marta Weiss
Book caption: The invention of the daguerreotype was announced in France in 1839. Almost immediately, it was employed not only to record the likenesses of people and places, but also staged scenarios suggestive of narrative. This sentimental depiction of a woman and child tending to a wounded soldier was most likely set up in a British daguerreotypist’s studio. |
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| Accession number | RPS.610-2017 |
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| Record created | July 11, 2017 |
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