Photo of Thomas ROOK 1784-1844 - Summary (General)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Sunday, November 01, 2009, 07:27 (5591 days ago)

Continuing on from → http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=21764

I am sure we have all learned a little more about old photography from what has been posted in this thread and it seems to conclude that it is in fact a photograph of Thomas ROOK 1784-1844.

From Roger Vaughan's remarks it appears that it is a re-photographed Daguerreotype (a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor).

As Thomas was photograhed wearing his working clothes and photography was expensive in those days, I will go along with Helen's theory that his employer Mr Mushet could have had the photo taken and given him a copy.