Antoine Claudet

(1797 - 1867)

Early writer on photography
and Daguerreotypist

Antoine Claudet

Antoine Claudet  -  Early writer on photography and Daguerreotypist  -  Photographed by Thomas Rodger, c.1860

©  Reproduced by courtesy St Andrews University Library                                                        ALB1-39

This photograph is of Antoine Claudet with a quill pen.  Claudet was a writer on photography and an exponent of the Daguerreotype process.

He bought the English Daguerreotype patent from Daguerre.

The photograph  comes from the collection in St Andrews University Library.  It was taken  by Thomas Rodger around 1860.

     

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