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Photographing art - paintings and drawings


 
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Reproductions of works on canvas and paper
1Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Cardinal d'Amboise
2Photographing art: Works on paper and canvas
3Leopold Robert (1794-1835, artist): "The arrival of the reapers in the Pontine marshes" (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins) [with variants]
4William Sterling: Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848)
5Charles Piazzi Smyth: Notice of an Illuminated Vellum Manuscript
Companies selling reproductions of works of art in the nineteenth century
6Companies providing photographic reproductions of art in the nineteenth century
7Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard: reproductions of works of art
8Adolphe Braun - A Continental Printing Establishment (1874)
Microphotographs of art
9Art and microphotographs
Commercial copying
10U.S. Treasury Note and National Bank Note Detector (1866)
Copyright law in Great Britain - 1888 (Messrs. Braun and Co. vs. A.E. Whitehouse)
11International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (17 August 1888)
12International Copyright of Photographs - Messrs. Braun and Co. (24 August 1888)
13International Copyright of Photographs - Judgement - Messrs. Braun and Co. (21 September 1888)

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