#  “Larger Than Life”: Edwin Forrest Mammoth Daguerreotype Conservation Challenges 

 





July 08, 2020

 

 

 Senior Photograph Conservator Elena Bulat presented her work on June 20th, 2020 on the Edwin Forrest Mammoth Daguerreotype as part of The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Book and Paper group webinar series "Conservation Together at Home."

 This presentation focused on the conservation challenges and opportunities presented by a mammoth plate daguerreotype of American stage actor Edwin Forrest from the Theatre Collection at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Although mammoth daguerreotypes are very rare, the Theatre Collection has two of these photographs, both depicting the same person—the famous American actor Edwin Forrest. The daguerreotypes have no attribution or provenance. One of these two daguerreotypes had very compromised condition that required some level of engineering and creative thinking.

 Watch the full presentation including a Q&A portion below.

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