Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
A complete and authentic issue of the National Intelligencer, March 7, 1839, 4pp., disbound. From the interior, “The New Art; or, ‘The Pencil of Nature,” running 1/2 column. In small part, the report oopens with “There has been published an account from a French paper of a wonderful discovery made recently by M. DAGUERRE--that of transferring the picture of any object to paper, by the action of the solar light acting by means of the camera obscura; which paper, being prepared and endowed with certain chemical properties, will retain the impression for an indefinite length of time; and thus a perfect copy from Nature may be produced. This discovery, it is obvious, will be of the greatest advantage to the arts; and, unless the accounts which we have received from abroad are grossly exaggerated, it has already been brought to very great perfection....The London Literary Gazette of 2d February contains a long and very interesting account of a similar discovery, which has recently been made in England by H. Fox Talbot, a gentleman of great scientific acquirements.Who is entitled to the honor of the original discovery, is a grave question to be settled by scientific men....”
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