DAGUERRE PRESENTS ITS INVENTION TO JOHN BULL
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY "My Sun, Sir. Fine child for his age". It is played on the assonance of the words "son" (son) and "sun" (sun): Daguerre presents to John Bull the "son", who drags like a toy a camera on a miniature tripod. Illustration of the humorous treatise titled "Photographic Pleasures, Popularly portrayed with pen and pencils", by Cuthbert Bede, BA (stage name of Edward Bradley, 25 March 1827 - 12 December 1889). T. McLean, London 1855