1850s photograph fetches £185k

An 1850s daguerreotype fetched €216,750 (around £185,000) at an auction in Paris, France.

The image (pictured) by Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was part of a collection belonging to antiquarian bookseller André Jammes and his wife, Marie-Therese, who began collecting photographs in 1955.

The ‘full-plate’ daguerreotype depicts Jean-Baptiste’s own studio and is thought to have been created in the first half of the 1850s.

In the background stand other daguerreotype photos that Jean-Baptiste captured on his travels, including a shot of London’s Trafalgar Square.

Did the auction survive the credit crunch? See next week's Amateur Photographer magazine for details.

Picture: Copyright Sotheby’s/Art Digital Studio