View from the window at Gras. 1826.

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View from the window at Gras. 1826.

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View of the courtyard of Niépce's house at Gras, France, taken from the window of his workroom. On the left side of the image is the pigeon-house (an upper loft in the Niépce family house), to the right of it is a pear-tree with a patch of sky showing through an opening in the branches. In the center of the image is the slanting roof of the barn; the long building behind it is the bake house, with chimney. On the right side of the image is another wing of the house. The plate was exposed for approximately eight hours resulting in the appearance of shadows on opposite sides of the courtyard.

1 photograph on pewter plate : heliograph ; 16 x 20 cm.

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Niépce, Nicéphore 1765-1833

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Frenchman credited as the inventor of photography with his successful experiment of permanently fixing an image in 1826. From the description of View from the window at Gras. 1826. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492310 French chemist who originated a photographic process. He worked with Daguerre who perfected Niépce's discovery after the latter's death. From the desc...