{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O74668"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74668/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AP5927/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AP5927/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AP5927","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2016JF2899","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017JU9710","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O74668/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O74668","accessionNumber":"57-1939","objectType":"Daguerreotype","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"This is an excellent example of the Daguerreotype portrait, which startled and delighted the public in Europe and the United States in the 1840s and early 1850s. Claudet was one of the pioneers of the process: he found an 'accelerating agent' (bromine and chloride of iodine) which speeded up exposures considerably. The sitter, Andrewe Pritchard, was probably a business associate of Claudet's. Pritchard was also an inventor and the proprietor of an emporium selling scientific instruments in Ludgate Circus, London. He was famous for making jewel lenses. Claudet's portrait shows the scientific inventor as a romantic modern figure.","physicalDescription":"Bust portrait of Andrew Pritchard facing right with his hand to his face.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Claudet, Antoine-Francoise-Jean","id":"A7626"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Daguerreotype","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AP5927","2016JF2899","2017JU9710"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"DAG","shelf":"7","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"daguerreotype","id":"AAT53530"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1843","earliest":"1843-01-01","latest":"1843-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Miss Ethel Spiller 1939","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"86","unit":"mm","qualifier":"Case closed ","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"95","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Case open","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"180","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Case open","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Daguerreotype with gilt mount, in maker's case. Portrait of Andrew Pritchard by Antoine-Francoise-Jean Claudet, London, 18 July 1843.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Pritchard, Andrew","id":"N1774"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>Photography Centre, 2018-20:</b>\r\n\r\nAntoine Claudet (1797–1867)\r\nPortraits: Andrew Pritchard; Mrs Andrew Pritchard; Michael Faraday; William Henry Fox Talbot; Young Man; Elderly Man; Young Man; Grandmother Houghton; Elderly Woman; George Houghton; Unknown Woman; John Flight; Young Woman, possibly from the Houghton Family\r\n1840s–50s\r\n\r\nClaudet was a student of Daguerre, and was among the first to open a photographic portrait studio in London. Though praised for their sharp and minute detail, daguerreotypes were criticised by many for making sitters appear ashen and deathly due to their grey tones. To combat this, some portraits were coloured by hand for a more life-like effect. \r\n\r\nDaguerreotypes\r\nMuseum nos. 57, 1422-1939; RPS.373, 374, 377, 378, 387, 388, 389, 426, 492, 495 & 532-2017\r\n\r\nThe Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2011-2012, label text : \r\n\r\nAntoine-François-Jean Claudet (1797-1867)\r\nAndrew Pritchard\r\n1843\r\n\r\nPhotographic advances in the 1840s contributed\r\nto the decline in the popularity of painted portrait\r\nminiatures. Claudet was among the first to open a\r\nphotographic portrait studio in London, using the\r\ndaguerreotype process. The sitter is the English\r\noptician and inventor Andrew Pritchard (1804–82),\r\nwho made lenses for Claudet and exhibited his\r\ninventions at the Great Exhibition of 1851.\r\n\r\nDaguerreotype\r\nGiven by Miss Ethel Spiller\r\nMuseum no. 57-1939\r\n","date":{"text":"07 03 2014","earliest":"2014-03-07","latest":"2014-03-07"}}],"partNumbers":["57-1939"],"accessionNumberNum":"57","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1939,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-02-19","availableToBook":false}}