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Florence. The Campanile & Portion of the South side of Cathedral
Alexander John Ellis British
Not on view
The first wave of "photographer-travelers" ventured out with cameras shortly after the public announcement of the daguerreotype process in August 1839. Few of their early plates survive, partly because the daguerreotypes were considered incidental to the lithographs, engravings, and etchings made after them for publication. An exception is the work of English polymath Alexander John Ellis, whose planned publication, Italy Daguerreotyped, never came to fruition. He began collecting and producing daguerreotypes in May 1841 and eventually accumulated 159 plates, some made as early as 1840 by the Italian photographers Lorenzo Suscipj and Achille Morelli.
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