Hôtel de ville et Pont d'Arcole Paris, Papier salé viré à l'or d'après négatif verre au collodion, 320x440 mm, monté sur carton. Timbre humide du photographe sur le montage Salt print from collodion glass negative, artist wet stamp mount, exceptional tonality. The spectators on the bridge are awaiting the imminent arrival of Queen Victoria's barge. Among the masterpieces in the art of calotype. People have been fooled, thinking that certain images were from glass until they saw the paper negatives. In La Lumière, one reads comments like "M. Baldus's photographs from paper, which have all of the clarity of glass..."
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