Is Thomas Wedgwood's picture actually the first photograph?

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If you read the Wikpedia article, it states that the best Wedgwood did was to make shadow image photograms which are done by placing an object on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light such as the leaf illustration included in the article. He did not make any images that today would be called photographs.

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Thomas Wedgwood's portrait is not a photograph. If you click on the picture and look at the attribution of Wedgwood's portrait on the Wikipedia page, it states:

From a chalk drawing belonging to Miss Wedgwood, of Leith Hill Place. Artist unknown.

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