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Portrait of a Man and a Portrait of a Woman
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
To make a daguerreotype, a copperplate, coated with silver, was polished and sensitized to light with iodine vapour. The plate was placed in the camera and exposed for 30–90 seconds. It was then removed from the camera in the dark and placed above a heated mercury bath. As the mercury vapour reacted with the plate's surface, an image appeared, which was subsequently fixed.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePortrait of a Man and a Portrait of a Woman. c. 1850 - c. 1859. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
