Portrait of Lord Wensleydale. Hand coloured. Decorative preserver present.

Pair with 28299. Probably a relative of Henry Peach Robinson.

Probably George Houghton who was partner to Claudet and founded Houghtons. Another view taken at the same sitting is number 28209. The pair may form a stereo pair for viewing in the Wheatstone stereo viewer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Claudet (Houghton's partner) states, 'By 1842 he had made stereo daguerreotypes for Sir Charles Wheatstone.' It seems likely that the sitter for such experimental plates would be somebody who happened to be around at the time. The absence of a typical Claudet, Anglo-American style housing also points towards these plates being intended for the Wheatstone stereo viewer.

The famous scientist Michael Faraday.

BEARD PATENTEE stamped into mat.