NIÉPCE & DAGUERRE INVENTION DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE MEDAL - 1902

NIÉPCE & DAGUERRE INVENTION DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE MEDAL - 1902

A silver prize medal, 48mm diameter, contained in a red morocco-covered case, awarded to M. Ernest Fort at the 1902 Exhibition of the Société des Beaux Arts de Béziers, affiliated to the Societé Française de Photographie, Fondée en 1845. The recto of the medal shows a double profile pair of portraits of Nicephore Niépce and L.J.M. Daguerre, surrounded by the legend: 'Invention de la Photographie. Nicephore. Niepce. L.J. Daguerre'.