- [Still Life with Guitar and Stereo Viewer]
Overall: 3 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (8.3 × 17.5 cm)
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T. R. Williams was a gifted daguerreotypist who grew fascinated with the new science of stereography, a type of two-part imaging that unites separate pictures into a three-dimensional scene through a viewer, an example of which lies in front of the guitar in this still life. Williams operated several London studios focusing on stereo portraits, landscapes, and artistic compositions and entered into a contract with the London Stereoscopic Company to mass-produce his views. Whether as daguerreotypes or sturdier paper prints, his stereos delighted audiences with their incredible realism a century before 3-D movies.
Provenance[Christies, South Kensington, England]; purchased by Manfred Heiting; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History"Turning Light Into Silver", 19 February - 30 May 2005, Audrey Jones Beck Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, lower level.
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