The Time of Promise

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Artist George Shadbolt(British, 1830–1901)British, 1830–1901

CultureBritish

Titles

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

DateApril 29, 1857

MediumSalted paper print

DimensionsImage: 6 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (17.5 × 22.1 cm)
Mount: 12 × 17 5/16 in. (30.5 × 43.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2023.168.35

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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