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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><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>Daguerreotypes 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><b>People</b><br>Horatio Ross (1801-1886) took up photography in 1845, although he is also remembered as one of the 19th century's finest sportsmen. He was best known for steeplechasing (a form of horse racing) and as a marksman. 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The image is made on a brightly polished sheet of silvered copper. This process was initially used almost entirely for commercial portraiture. The photographs here by an early amateur, Horatio Ross, show a self-portrait and a fishing scene, prototypes of the ever-popular 'family snapshot'.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["242-1946"],"accessionNumberNum":"242","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1946,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Previous number","id":"THES51695"},"number":"PH.242-1946"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR2121","2019LP3508","2019LV1253"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-06","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}