Double-effect diorama image — by night
The above two illustrations are reproduced from H. & A. Gernsheim
L. J. M. Daguerre, Secker and Warburg: London 1956

‘Roslin Chapel’
Engraving after a painting by L. J. M. Daguerre
The Mirror of Literature, 1826, Vol. 7, p.129

‘Ruins in a Fog’
Engraving after a painting by L. J. M. Daguerre
The Mirror of Literature, 1827, Vol. 8, p.425

Woodcut of ‘Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’, Edinburgh
by L. J. M. Daguerre, 1823
From H. & A. Gernsheim, L. J. M. Daguerre
Secker and Warburg: London 1956

‘Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’, Edinburgh
Oil on canvas, L. J. M. Daguerre, 1824
From H. & A. Gernsheim, L. J. M. Daguerre
Secker and Warburg: London 1956

See the previous page, under ‘Extra Documentation’ for a review of the diorama of Holyrood Chapel in The Times in 1825

‘Le Dyorama. port de Boulogne’, Lithograph by Marlet

This lithograph was exhibited by G. Cromer in Paris in 1924 as supposedly showing a diorama by Daguerre. That copy is now in the Cromer Collection at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA. However there is no contemporary documentation of a diorama by Daguerre of this subject, and the way the spectators are standing in front of a display bears no resemblance to Daguerre’s Diorama building in Paris. However, there is little detailed information available on dioramas displayed at Bouton’s new Diorama after he returned to Paris, and more research is needed to establish a full list of the dioramas that Bouton displayed there in the 1840s.