Printed: 2024-04-20
Esselens, Prosper
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Brussels, 1816 - ?, ?
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1863 - 1871 Bruxelles
Prosper Joseph Antoine, ° 2.4.1816. Chemist; active socialist and republican. Collaborator of the "Bulletin Belge de Photographie", 1863-1871. Patent of 31.12.1864 for improvements in the production of photographic prints [use of gold chloride for developing]. "The [specimens] are produced, it is said, by means of a salt of iron, and gold and platinum....The process is probably based upon the Chrysotype process of Sir John Herschell [sic]. The prints we have received are described as the imperfect results of a first trial...and they are, moreover, reproductions, which are not the most favourable for affording a fair estimate of a process" ("Another Permanent Printing Process", Photographic News, 3.2.1865, p. 53).
Prosper Joseph Antoine, ° 2.4.1816. Chemist; active socialist and republican. Collaborator of the "Bulletin Belge de Photographie", 1863-1871. Patent of 31.12.1864 for improvements in the production of photographic prints [use of gold chloride for developing]. "The [specimens] are produced, it is said, by means of a salt of iron, and gold and platinum....The process is probably based upon the Chrysotype process of Sir John Herschell [sic]. The prints we have received are described as the imperfect results of a first trial...and they are, moreover, reproductions, which are not the most favourable for affording a fair estimate of a process" ("Another Permanent Printing Process", Photographic News, 3.2.1865, p. 53).
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1863 - 1871 Bruxelles
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DIRECTORY_1997#1598
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SFJ revised 27.6.2022 partly based on information supplied by Dr Anthony Hamber