Western Approach to the Acropolis, Athens, 1842. Purchase, Philippe de Montebello Fund, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel and Annette de la Renta Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2016. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The optical properties of daguerreotypes, the earliest types of photographs, invented in the ninetee
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