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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Official image of the First Photograph in 2003, minus any manual retouching, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras. c. 1826
1826 (taken) 2003 (photographed)

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Gernsheim Collection Harry Ransom Center / University of Texas at Austin Photo by J. Paul Getty Museum.

LL/39145

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Helmut Gernsheim & Kodak Research Laboratory Reproduction of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's "View from the Window at Le Gras"
1952, 21 March
Gelatin silver print, with watercolor
20.3 x 25.4 cm

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
HRC (964:0000:0001)

LL/6127

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Armand Hippolyte Fizeau
Toiture et cheminée, rue du Cherche-Midi à Paris
1843
Daguerreotype
8.2 x 8.6 cm

Musée d'Orsay
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski, Europeana Identifier: RMNDO000000311536 ; PHO1989-13

LL/42670

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Armand Hippolyte Fizeau [Attributed to]
The roofs of Paris
n.d.
Etched dataguerreotype plate

Private collection of Hans Gummersbach

LL/69979

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Armand Hippolyte Fizeau
N° 1, lundi 7 août, Paris rooftop (St Sulpice)
1843, 7 August
Daguerreotype, subtly engraved by the effect of a complex acid
4 x 8 cm

The Romantic Agony Book & Print Auctions
Auction 19 June 2015, Lot: 12

LL/60154 [Further details available]

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Samuel A. Bemis
[Boston roof tops in winter]
1840 (ca)
Daguerreotype, full plate
16.4 x 21.6 cm

George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, 1980.0788.0005

LL/116624

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Unidentified photographer
Blick vom Wetterturm am Haus Bürgergasse 13 zur ehemaligen Dietrichsteinbastei in Graz
1840
Daguerreotype

Daguerreobase
Creative Commons – Attribution Non-commercial, Share Alike (BY-NC-SA), Stiftung Bonartes, Vienna, BON_10

LL/126462

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Armand Hippolyte Fizeau
Rooftops of Paris
1840-1845
Daguerrean impression proof, Print, photomechanical - Fizeau Process
6.9 x 9.5 cm (2 11/16 x 3 3/4 ins) (image) 12 x 16.7 cm (4 3/4 x 6 9/16 ins) (platemark) 14 x 18.1 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/8 ins) (sheet)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Charles W. Millard III, Accession no: 2010.1156

LL/96593

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Henry Fox Talbot
[The Roofline of Lacock Abbey]
1835-1839 (probably)
Salt-fixed photogenic drawing negative
11.1 x 11.7 cm (4 3/8 x 4 5/8 in)

J. Paul Getty Museum
Object number: 84.XM.478.9

LL/50687

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Eduard Isaac Asser
View from the roof of the photographer's house, Amsterdam
1851-1853
Album (mounted on paper), Salted paper print from wet collodion on glass negative

Rijksmuseum
Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-AB12278-B)

LL/25790

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Unidentified photographer
Rooftop study of a French Châteaux
1843 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 3/4 plate

Private collection of Jason David Wright

LL/86552

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Southworth & Hawes
Cloud Study
n.d.
Daguerreotype

Internet - Original source ill-defined
Source requested. Sold at The David Feigenbaum Collection of Southworth & Hawes and Other 19th-Century Photographs, 27 April 1999, Sotheby's New York

LL/98300

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Unidentified artist (French, 19th century)
Paris Rooftops
n.d.
Albumen print
21.5 x 27 cm (8 7/16 x 10 5/8 ins) (image / sheet)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Accession no: 1979.639

LL/96964

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Armand Hippolyte Fizeau
View From Window, 17, rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris
1843
Daguerreotype, etched in acid for printing
2 x 3 1/8 in.

Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2020.235

LL/112601 [Further details available]

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Years

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1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860
1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871
1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Photographers

PhV	Eduard Isaac Asser
PhV	Samuel A. Bemis
PhV	Armand Hippolyte Fizeau
PhV	Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
PhV	Southworth & Hawes
PhV	Henry Fox Talbot

Online Exhibitions

PhV	Abstract: Abstraction of the Real
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Exterior views (1839-1855)
PhV	Talk: Photography - The early years
PhV	The Gernsheim Collection

Contents - Themes & Fragments

PhV	Abstract - Abstraction before abstraction
PhV	Architecture - A world of roofs
PhV	Austria - Introduction to photography in Austria
PhV	Cityscapes - Urban - Cityscapes with snow
PhV	Climate and weather - Weather: Clouds
PhV	Clouds - Weather: Clouds
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Exteriors
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Printing from daguerreotype plates
PhV	Daguerreotypists - France - Daguerreotypes: Paris
PhV	France - Daguerreotypes: Paris
PhV	France - Introduction to photography in France
PhV	Ice and snow - Cityscapes with snow
PhV	Massachusetts - Introduction to photography in Massachusetts
PhV	Netherlands - The Netherlands: Amsterdam
PhV	Paris - Daguerreotypes: Paris
PhV	Paris - Introduction to photography in Paris
PhV	Photo-mechanical processes - Armand Hippolyte Fizeau: Photoengraving
PhV	Photo-mechanical processes - Printing from daguerreotype plates
PhV	Prehistory of photography - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: View from the Window at Le Gras