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The Photographic Album for the Year 1857, Being Contributions from the Members of The Photographic Club

ArtistBritish, born France, 1823–1901
ArtistBritish, 1817–1886
ArtistBritish, active 1850s
ArtistEnglish, 1818–1895
ArtistBritish, 1830–1880
ArtistBritish, d. 1874
ArtistEnglish, 1819–1869
ArtistBritish, active 1850s
ArtistBritish, active 1850s–1860s
ArtistBritish, 1826–1889
ArtistBritish, active 1850s
ArtistBritish, active 1850s
ArtistBritish, 1802–1880s
ArtistBritish, 1830–1901
ArtistBritish, born 1805
ArtistEnglish, 1815–1894
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Photographic Album for the Year 1857, Being Contributions from the Members of The Photographic Club
Date1857
MediumBook of albumen silver prints and salted paper prints
DimensionsOverall: 17 7/8 × 12 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (45.4 × 31.7 × 5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2023.168.1-.39
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Description


The print for “Remains of the Abbey Church, Bury St. Edmunds” by George Downes was bound with the letterpress for “Old Gateway, Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire” by Rev. Dr. J. Holden and vice versa. Text and images are displayed in this database as they should have been bound.



Provenance[Sotheby’s, London, November 17, 2021, Lot 146]; [purchased by Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd, Brighton, England, November 17, 2021]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Published References Roger Taylor, "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860" (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Washington: National Gallery of Art ; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 83-95. Helmut Gernsheim, "Incunabula of British photographic literature: a bibliography of British photographic literature, 1839-75, and British books illustrated with original photographs" (London; Berkeley: Scolar Press in association with Derbyshire College of Higher Education, 1984), 72.

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Hugh Welch Diamond