Le passé, le présent et l'avenir de la photographie : manuel pratique de photographie
A French practical manual on photography by Alophe, published in Paris by E. Dentu in 1861, addressed to amateurs and practitioners of the new medium. The single picture is a wood-engraved view of a crowded gallery hung with framed portraits and oval medallions, with fashionably dressed visitors in top hats and crinolines, a potted palm, and a glimpse of a glazed skylight; a designer might take its ornate interior framing and period dress as a reference for mid-nineteenth-century Parisian display rooms.
