The first permanent photoetching was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor Nicphore Nipce, but it was destroyed in a later attempt to make prints from it.[27] Nipce was successful again in 1825. In 1826 he made the View from the Window at Le Gras, the earliest surviving photograph from nature (i.e., of the image of a real-world scene, as formed in a camera obscura by a lens).[28]