Babbicombe, from the Beach

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Artist Alfred Batson(British, active 1850s)British, active 1850s

CultureBritish

Titles

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

DateJune 25, 1857

Place depictedDevon, England

MediumAlbumen silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/16 × 10 13/16 in. (20.4 × 27.5 cm)
Mount: 11 15/16 × 17 5/16 in. (30.4 × 44 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2023.168.4

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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