Taking a Daguerreotype Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Pongo pygmaeus shown from the

Pongo pygmaeus shown from the front

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Napoleon

There are innumerable stars in the neighbourhood

One would creep up behind the victim and grab him around the throat

Taking a Daguerreotype Size:XL: 100 x 75cm Pongo pygmaeus shown from theTaking a Daguerreotype, 1855 (1956). The Daguerreotype system of photography was invented by French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre in 1839. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.