Jabez Hogg
1841-1860 (ca.)
Dr. John Goddard dis. Bromine Inventor of Polariscope

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Private collection
Source requested.
 
Inscribed with a caption on the cover glass; "Dr. John Goddard dis. Bromine Inventor of Polariscope", and later manuscript label in ink, on verso reading; "Professor Jon Goddard, discoverer of the quickening effect of Bromine in the production of the Daguerreotype picture." Jabez Hogg 1. Bedford Square.
CHISWICK AUCTIONS, London - Now in British private collection.
 
"Goddard went to work for the London daguerreotypist Richard Beard and in 1840 discovered the applicability of bromine in sensitizing daguerreotype plates, which so greatly increased the sensitivity of the plates that portraiture immediately became practical."
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
 
(Alan Griffiths, 8 January 2026) I'm indebted to Jack Wilgus for bringing this important plate to my attention.
 
LL/131596