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| 1. |  | Richard Beard 1842-1843 Jabez Hogg and Mr. Johnson Daguerreotype National Science and Media Museum Identification no: 1983-50-70 daguerreobase,org (Acccessed: 5 January 2020) The first representation of a photographer at work: Jabez Hogg takes the photograph of Mr. Johnson in Richard Beard's studio. The scene depicts Hogg standing on the left, in profile, with a lens cap in his right hand and a watch (on a chain) in his left. He has dark wavy hair, sideburns, and wears a long dark jacket, dark trousers, white shirt and dark cravat. The camera is in front of him on a turned wooden stand. On a footstool (which appears to be beaded) in the foreground is a top hat with the rim uppermost. The carpet is patterned. The sitter on the right is an older man, with receding hair and sideburns. He wears a dark jacket, paler trousers, (what looks like) a decorative patterned waistcoat, white shirt and dark cravat. He is also seen in near profile, his left hand grasping the wooden arm of the chair, his right hand in his lap. The chair has a padded seat . The painted backdrop depicts an alcove lined with a wooden trellis and includes: a stone seat, gothic design, climbing plants with flowers and a bird in an ornate cage. To the left of the alcove is part of an urn and tree, so possibly this is set within a romantic landscape. The bottom of the backdrop has a 'hem', slightly scuffed with use. The brocade curtain behind the sitter is held back with a cord and tassel. To the right of the sitter is a bust of Milton (probably based on a portrait bust attributed to John Cheere). Hogg was one of the earliest British experimenters with the daguerreotype. A woodcut illustration of this image was published in 'A Practical Manual of Photography' in 1843. The same woodcut, in 'The Illustrated London News' on 19th August 1843 page 125, illustrated a satirical poem called 'Lines Written on Seeing a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Lady'. The footnote reads: 'Our engraving represents the photographic process of Mr Beard's establishment, Parliament-Street, Westminster.' In a Wharton case, no further housing. |
| 2. |  | Richard Beard 1843, 19 August The photographic process at Mr. Beard's establishment, Parliament-street, Westminster Magazine illustration The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100007572 Miss Elizabeth Sheridan Carey "Lines Written on Seeing a Daguerreotype Portrait of a Lady" Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, August 19, 1843; pg. 125; Issue 68 |
| 3. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Embosssed plate Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 2) The gold-toned plate is in a mat with embossed "Beard Patentee," in the original early Wharton frame, within a deep Morocco fliptop case. See the excellent article by Dr. Robert Fisher in "The Daguerreian Annual 1992" on Beard's operations in England in the 1840's, including his franchise of the Wolcott-Johnson mirror camera and other technical innovations. Beard had the technical cooperation of Wolcott, Johnson and Goddard, and employed as operators great daguerreotypists such as Jabez Hogg and T. R. Williams. Many of the early portraits were of figures connected with early photography, but I haven't identified this subject. |
| 4. |  | Richard Beard 1851-1852 Tyrolese singers Daguerreotype, hand-coloured, enamelled 14 x 10.2 cm Royal Photograph Collection The Royal Collection ® 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 2932501 This photograph was included in the exhibition Victoria & Albert: Art & Love at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 31 October 2010. Acquired by Queen Victoria. In 2010 this photograph was uploaded to flickr by The British Monarchy. The text on the Royal Collection website (www.royalcollection.org.uk) describes this Daguerreotype (Accesssed: 6 Aug 2010): Queen Victoria had first seen this troupe of Tyrolean singers as a girl at Kensington Palace. For the Queen's birthday at Osborne in 1852, her mother, the Duchess of Kent, arranged for the singers to serenade her at breakfast. 'Victoria appeared very much pleased with the surprise,' the Duchess wrote. This hand-coloured enamelled daguerreotype was purchased by the Queen in the same year. Signed on the plate: R. Beard |
| 5. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Portrait of a young woman (English) Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-tinted Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#13 / 13) Richard BEARD'S hand signature under the image. |
| 6. |  | Richard Beard 1853, 16 February [Mrs. R. Holdsworth] Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand-coloured 7.8 x 6.5 cm (3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in) J. Paul Getty Museum Object number: 84.XT.266.14 |
| 7. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Portrait of an attractive young woman Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#16/96) She appears to have a photograph album on her lap. |
| 8. |  | Richard Beard 1841-1849 Portrait of John Blackburn Daguerreotype, Encased Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14366) |
| 9. |  | Richard Beard 1842-1849 Portrait of an unknown man Daguerreotype, Encased Rijksmuseum Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F14386) |
| 10. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Jovial older Gentlemen Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate Stereographica - Antique Photographica Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#15 / 109) Resealed in maroon leather case, with Beard's original signature under the image. |
| 11. |  | Richard Beard 1841 (ca) George Thompson Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 07_05_000018, Cab no.: Cab.G.3.119 Abolitionists; Thompson, George, 1806-1888 Signed on the frame: Beard Patentee. |
| 12. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Affable gent Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 2) The gold-toned plate is in a mat with embossed "Beard Patentee," in the original early Wharton frame, within a deep Morocco fliptop case. See the excellent article by Dr. Robert Fisher in "The Daguerreian Annual 1992" on Beard's operations in England in the 1840's, including his franchise of the Wolcott-Johnson mirror camera and other technical innovations. Beard had the technical cooperation of Wolcott, Johnson and Goddard, and employed as operators great daguerreotypists such as Jabez Hogg and T. R. Williams. Many of the early portraits were of figures connected with early photography, but I haven't identified this subject. |
| 13. |  | Richard Beard n.d. Affable gent Daguerreotype, 1/9 plate Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: Feb 21, 2008, 51, part 1 / lot 2) The gold-toned plate is in a mat with embossed "Beard Patentee," in the original early Wharton frame, within a deep Morocco fliptop case. See the excellent article by Dr. Robert Fisher in "The Daguerreian Annual 1992" on Beard's operations in England in the 1840's, including his franchise of the Wolcott-Johnson mirror camera and other technical innovations. Beard had the technical cooperation of Wolcott, Johnson and Goddard, and employed as operators great daguerreotypists such as Jabez Hogg and T. R. Williams. Many of the early portraits were of figures connected with early photography, but I haven't identified this subject. |
| 14. |  | Richard Beard 1845 Sir John Franklin [British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848] Daguerreotype 6.2 x 7.6 cm Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Accession no.: N: 589/1 Three-quarter length portrait of Sir John Franklin, seated and holding a telescope. Sir John Franklin, Captain, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England. For a detailed discussion on this series of Daguerreotypes: http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/lost-daguerreotypes.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-franklin-expedition.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-franklin-expedition-daguerreotype.html |
| 15. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 13 September Captain Sir John Franklin, K.H.C. Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter |
| 16. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 18 October Captain Sir John Franklin, K.H.C. [English Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Seas, Portraits of Sir John Franklin and Officers of the English Exploring Expedition] Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Volume 1, Number 25, Boston, Saturday, October 18, 1851. |
| 17. |  | Richard Beard 1845 Stephen Stanley [British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848] Daguerreotype 6.2 x 7.6 cm Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Accession no.: N: 589/10 Three-quarter length portrait of Stephen Stanley, Surgeon, seated. Stephen Samuel Stanley, Surgeon, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England. For a detailed discussion on this series of Daguerreotypes: http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/lost-daguerreotypes.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-on-franklin-expedition.html http://hidden-tracks-book.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-franklin-expedition-daguerreotype.html |
| 18. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 13 September S. Stanley (Surgeon) Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter |
| 19. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 18 October S. Stanley (Surgeon) [English Exploring Expedition to the Arctic Seas, Portraits of Sir John Franklin and Officers of the English Exploring Expedition] Magazine illustration Private collection of Dr. Russell A. Potter Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Volume 1, Number 25, Boston, Saturday, October 18, 1851. |
| 20. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada The text below the image says: A RELIC OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER IN BRITAIN OF 107 YEARS AGO: RICHARD BEARD'S TRADE CARD. The Trade Card reproduced above is an important item in the history of photography. In the year 1839, Daguerre‘s process of photography on a metal plate had been announced to the world, and in 1840 the English patent was acquired by Richard Beard, a London coal merchant. The original card was printed by chromo-lithography and, although its exact date is unknown, we do know that in 1842 Beard had the three studios proclaimed above: at Parliament Street, King William Street and Regent Street, for in that year The Illustrated London News was founded and in its issue dated July 23 there appears Beard's first advertisement bearing the same three addresses, and stating that his charge for a miniature portrait bust was one guinea, two guineas for a full-length, and "10s 6d. For each additional likeness to form a group." Our reproduction is published by courtesy of Mr. George H. Gabb, F.C.S. Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947, p. 14. |
| 21. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card [Detail] Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947 - 14. |
| 22. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card [Detail] Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947 - 14. |
| 23. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card [Detail] Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947 - 14. |
| 24. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card [Detail] Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947 - 14. |
| 25. |  | Richard Beard 1842 (ca) Trade card [Detail] Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada Reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number, 1947 - 14. |
| 26. |  | Richard Beard 1842, 10 March (sealed) 1843 (publication) Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses Magazine page Google Books Published in "The London Journal and Repository of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures", Conjoined Series, No.CXXXII, Recent Patents, 1843, p.358-360. To Richard Beard, of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses and representations of nature, and of other objects, being a communication. [Sealed 10th March, 1842.] This invention consists in various modes of coloring the pictures produced by the "Daguerreotype" process. By the first method, the object is obtained by reducing the colors to an impalpable powder, and depositing them upon different parts of the picture, in succession; the extent of each color being determined by a pattern or screen, resembling a stencil plate. The mode of operation is as follows: The Daguerreotype picture is first placed in a rectangular frame, which is formed with a projecting edge, of about one-twentieth of an inch in thickness. Over this frame a piece of glass or mica is laid, and a tracing is made upon it, with coloring matter, of the shape of those parts of the picture that are to be colored. From this tracing a number of patterns or screens are formed, one for each color. Each screen consists of a light rectangular frame, covered with tracing paper, upon which all those parts that are required to be of one color are traced, and the space included between the traced lines is cut out; so that when the screen is placed upon the picture, the tracing paper will cover its surface, except those parts which are required to be of a uniform tint. The colors are prepared by grinding them to an impalpable powder, with a weak solution of gum-arabic, isinglass, starch, or other similar material; they are then dried in a stove, (kept at a heat somewhat less that 212o Fahr.,) and, after being passed through a fine sieve, are ready for use. In applying these colors, a number of boxes, of a size sufficient to admit the picture, are employed, and into each box, the number of which varies according to the tints required, a few grains (say about fifty) of color are deposited. The color is agitated with a large soft brush, until a dust is created in the box, and the picture, covered by one of the screens, being then introduced, the particles of color settle upon the screen, and upon those parts of the picture that are not covered by it. After this operation, the picture is withdrawn, the screen taken off, and the color removed from the shaded parts, by means of a small pair of bellows; the remainder of the color is then attached to the picture by breathing upon it, which partially dissolves the gum, and the process is completed. The second improvement consists in mixing the colors with gum-water, and applying them, with a hair pencil, to the underside of the glass that covers the picture; so that when the later is seen through the glass, it will present the appearance of a colored picture. The third and last method consists in using the colors in a dry pulverized state, as in the first improvement, dotting them on to the picture, with small brushes, in a similar manner to stippling; the colors are then fixed by being breathed upon. [Inrolled in the Inrolment Office, September, 1842.] |
| 27. |  | Richard Beard 1851 292 Beard, Richard, 85 King William Street, City - Producer and Patentee Book page Google Books From "Official Descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition 1851" (London: Spicer Brothers, W. Clowes and Sons), p.440. [The comments R.E. are by Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) Great Britain.] 292 Beard, Richard, 85 King William Street, City Producer and Patentee. Photographic pictures by a new patent process, whereby daguerreotypes are "enamelled." [The enamelling referred to would appear to consist in removing the glare of the polished plate by a transparent covering, resembling a varnish. The present method of fixing a daguerreotype picture is by gilding, with a solution of the hypo-sulphite or chloride of gold. R. E.] |
| 28. |  | Richard Beard 1851, 7 June Beard's Enamelled Daguerreotypes Magazine page The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100028002 "Beard's Enamelled Daguerreotypes" Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, June 07, 1851; pg. 528; Issue 491 and 492 Great Exhibition (Supplement) |
| 29. |  | Richard Beard 1861 Photographs of Railway Accidents Magazine page Google Books Recreative Science: A Record and Remembrance of Intellectual Observation, 1861, Vol.II,p.349-350. Photographs Of Railway Accidents. It is now by no means an uncommon custom, on the occurrence of a railway accident, to take photographs of the scene of the disaster, and of the exact position of train, and carriages, and debris, to enable juries and the government inspector to arrive at a clear comprehension of the catastrophe. On the occasion of a late fearful accident on the North Kent Railway, photographs of the line and signal posts, with the position of the trains that came into collision, were taken by Mr. Beard, and tended most materially to elucidate the cause and effect of the disaster. |