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The Castle of Mains, Forfarshire

CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Castle of Mains, Forfarshire
  • from The Photographic Album for the Year 1857, Being Contributions from the Members of The Photographic Club
DateSeptember 1856
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 9 3/4 in. (20.3 × 24.7 cm)
Mount: 12 × 17 5/16 in. (30.5 × 44 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2023.168.37
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
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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