The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel by Dominic Smith, Dominic Smith
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel

Dominic Smith, Dominic Smith

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel

Dominic Smith, Dominic Smith

320 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction art historical adventurous slow-paced
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"When the vision came, he was in the bathtub." So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end with...

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