Originally made exclusively for the Meade Brothers to advertise Charles' feat of photographing the elusive Mr. Daguerre, it probably was so well received that it was quickly produced as a case for all daguerreotypists by simply eliminating the artist's name as seen in the example on the right.
I suspect there was a royalty paid to the Brothers Meade for the use of their image, but have no written proof of this.
This illustration was included in the lecture "The many faces of Daguerre" presented by Matt Isenburg at the Daguerreian Society Symposium (2009).
