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He advertised his portraits in the press stating that 'The likeness taken by the photographic process serves merely as a sketch for the miniature, which is painted by  M. Mansion, whose productions on Ivory are so celebrated in Paris. They have when finished all the delicacy of an elaborate miniature, with the infallible accuracy of expression only obttainable by the photographic process.' Three hand-coloured Daguereotypes by Kilburn were shown at the Great Exhibition in 1851.\n\nThe daguerreotype process was introduced to the  public in 1839 by Frenchman Louis Daguerre, and was  hugely popular as a medium for portraiture until the  middle of the 1850s. To create a daguerreotype, a  silver plated sheet was given a light sensitive surface  coating of iodine vapour. After a long exposure in the  camera, the image was developed over heated  mercury and fixed in a common salt solution. 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This process was initially used almost entirely for commercial portraiture. The photographs here by early amateurs, Horatio Ross and William Edward Kilburn, show a fishing scene and a portrait, prototypes of the ever-popular 'family snapshot'.","date":{"text":"14/07/06","earliest":"2006-07-14","latest":"2006-07-14"}},{"text":"<b>Object Type</b><br>\r\nDaguerreotypes (an early type of photograph on a silvered copper plate) were usually protected by glass and sometimes kept in leather or thick plastic cases because the highly polished surface is easily scratched. The image is a unique positive made directly onto the plate without a negative, as in other forms of photography. Many daguerreotype photographers replaced miniature painters as makers of portraits as the process was quicker and less expensive.<br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>Ownership & Use</b><br>\r\nDaguerreotypes were not made primarily for public display in exhibitions. Such small and intimate photographs were generally produced as private keepsakes and often remained within the family.<br><br>\r\n\r\n<b>People</b><br>\r\nKilburn opened a Daguerreotype studio in London in 1846. He advertised his portraits in the press stating that 'Thelikeness taken by the photographic process serves merely as a sketch for the miniature, which is painted by  M. Mansion, whose productions on Ivory are so celebrated in Paris. They have when finished all the delicacy of an elaborate miniature, with the infallible accuracy of expression only obttainable by the photographic process.' 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