Daguerreanadj.
/dəˈɡɛrɪən/ Pertaining to Daguerre or the daguerreotype; photographic.
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daguerreotypic1840
daguerreotypical1840
daguerreotype1841
Daguerrean1843
calotypic1854
pyro-photographic1869
autochrome1904
negative–positive1936
1843 J. Egerton tr. N. P. Lerebours Treat. Photogr. iv. xxv. 164 The Daguerreian phenomena.
1843 J. Egerton tr. N. P. Lerebours Treat. Photogr. iv. xxv. 166 On the formation of the Daguerreian images.
1844 Yale Lit. Mag. 9 381 His imitative bump is certainly ‘large’—so large, in fact, that it becomes almost Daguerryan in its workings, in that its productions only want an appearance of life and health to counterfeit the original.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 161 Daguerrean rooms.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. ix. 63 The method of developing the Daguerrean image.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxxiii. 264 Both of these eminent physicists employed the Daguerrean process with the greatest success in these researches.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 5 A full fledged daguerrean artist.
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