The First Expedition Around the World With an ‘Art Available to All’ (1839-1840).
The year 1839 was marked by the excitement produced by the announcement of an invention that had just begun to be called photography and the first public presentations of the novelty. Together with other instruments carried on board the Oriental-Hydrographe, the ship set sail with all the paraphernalia needed to obtain photomechanical images with a daguerreotype. The word was also new...
