Vanitas / Still Life with Skull, Open Book with Glasses and Hourglass / The Sands of Time

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Vanitas / Still Life with Skull, Open Book with Glasses and Hourglass / The Sands of Time

Creator

Thomas Richard Williams

Photographer · 1824–1871

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DaguerreotypistAmbrotypist

Little is known about the life of Thomas Richard Williams. The first professional record of him comes from 1850, when he set up a photographic business in London. In 1854, while working for Philip Henry Delamotte, Williams made his celebrated stereograph daguerreotypes of the Crystal Palace. Some scholars consider Williams to be one of the first photographers to record events as they happened, mak

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Date
1850–1852
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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Still life of memento mori.

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