article_snippet: The black and white photos, discovered in a UK country auction in 2006, have been confirmed as daguerreotypes – images developed on a polished metal plate – that belonged to influential Victorian art critic and writer John Ruskin.
article_snippet: The ‘lost photographs’ were taken mostly by Ruskin, who died in 1900 at the age of 80, while he was working on he three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture.
article_snippet: he was working on his three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture include the largest collection of daguerreotypes of Venice and possibly the earliest surviving photos of the French and Swiss Alps. possibly the earliest surviving photos of the French and Swiss Alps have been preserved and identified by collectors and historians Ken and Jenny Jacobson, who have co-authored a book that documents Ruskin’s photography.
article_snippet: John Ruskin snapped or collected the images while John Ruskin John Ruskin .
article_snippet: Based on their suspicion that the images belonged to John Ruskin, the Essex couple acquired the lot at an auction in Cumbria, where John Ruskin lived.
article_snippet: Ken Jacobson, who has been collecting historic photos with John Ruskin wife for almost 45 years, said: ‘The discovery of 188 previously unknown John Ruskin daguerreotypes has been the most exciting of the Essex couple career.
article_snippet: we feel that the quality and unorthodox style of many of Ruskin’s daguerreotypes will come as a major surprise to both photographic historians and those in the field of John Ruskin scholarship.
article_snippet: Ruskin’s daguerreotypes would be a sensational new revelation in the history of photography even if his were completely unknown.
article_snippet: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes, contains a fully illustrated catalogue raisonne of the 325 known daguerreotypes, plus details about the Jacobsons’ research.
highlights_snippet: The 170-year-old photos have been confirmed as daguerreotypes belonging to Ruskin after being purchased at an auction in Cumbria .
  
highlights_snippet: Daguerreotype, the first announced photographic process, involves images developed on a polished metal plate .
  
highlights_snippet: Collection of daguerreotypes were purchased by collectors and historians Ken and Jenny Jacobson .
  
highlights_snippet: Ken and Jenny Jacobson later confirmed Ken and Jenny Jacobson suspicion that the images belonged to Ruskin and have co-authored a new book .
  