Christian Actonius Theodorus Piil (1804-1884, Danish goldsmith, photographer, and inventor)
1496 (etching) 1855 (etching from daguerreotype)
L'Enfant Prodigue by Albrecht Dürer

Etching, from daguerreotype
2 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2022.682b
 
Made by Christian Actonius Theodorus Piil (1804-1884), Danish goldsmith, photographer, and inventor He was employed by Alois Auer of the Austrian State Printing Office in 1851 to develop a technique which would make it possible to etch daguerreotype plates and print from them using a book printing press. This project failed and Piil returned to Copenhagen in 1855.
 
LL/127374