Dagerotyp Wiktora Ludwika Dunin-Jundziłła w zbiorach Biblioteki Polskiej w Paryżu
The daguerreotype portrait of Wiktor Ludwik Dunin-Jundziłł from the collection of the Polish Library in Paris

Summary/Abstract: This article is a description of the daguerreotype portrait of a very well known Polish political emigre (ill. 2). Jundziłł (1790–1862) lived abroad from 1828, mainly in Lausanne. He worked there in the library of an economic society, as well as devoting himself to bringing up his twelve children and assisting other Polish emigrants (Adam Mickiewicz, Ludwik Chodźko, the Plater family). The author of the daguerreotype (1/6 plate) is anonymous. It is likely to have been taken in Lausanne around 1850. It is quite well preserved, while traces of a fixing bath in solution of gold chloride (A. H. L. Fizeau method widely used since 1840) can be seen on its surface.

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