The Colors of the Butterfly Wings: Non-Invasive Microanalytical Studies of Hand-Coloring Materials in 19th-Century Daguerreotypes

The Colors of the Butterfly Wings: Non-Invasive Microanalytical Studies of Hand-Coloring Materials in 19th-Century Daguerreotypes

The public expected color from the early photographic images, yet, daguerreotypes—the first commercially available photographic process—failed to register the natural colors. Daguerreotypists developed several coloring methods to solve this inconvenience after 1840. Scientific analyses of the hand-c...

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Main Authors: Diego Quintero Balbas, Barbara Cattaneo, Andrea Cagnini, Paolo Belluzzo, Silvia Innocenti, Sandra Rossi, Raffaella Fontana, Jana Striova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Heritage
Subjects:
daguerreotypes
pigments
Raman spectroscopy
FTIR
XRF
photography
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/4/221

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