In Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, Volume 1

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Artist Hugh Owen(English, 1808–1897)English, 1808–1897

Artist Claude-Marie Ferrier(French, 1811–1889)French, 1811–1889

Printer Nicolaas Henneman(British, born Netherlands, 1813–1898)British, born Netherlands, 1813–1898

Printer Robert Jefferson Bingham(British, active France, 1824–1870)British, active France, 1824–1870

CultureBritish

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In Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, Volume 1

Date1852

MediumBook with salted paper prints

DimensionsOverall: 14 1/2 × 11 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (36.8 × 28.5 × 7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.57.1

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Photography

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BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

Provenance[…]; purchased by private collection, 1960s-1970s; [Bonhams London, Fine Books and Manuscripts, March 31, 2021, Lot 8].
Exhibition History"Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860," Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24 - December 30, 2007; National Gallery of Art, February 3 - May 4, 2008; Musee d'Orsay, May 26 - September 7, 2008. (Art Gallery of Ontario copy of volumes 2, 3, & 4.)
Published References Asser, Saskia, “A handsome & highly finished present. Foto’s voor de juryrapporten van de Great Exhibition, 1851,” Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, Jaargang 53, Nummer 2, 2005, 141–176. Hamber, Anthony, A Higher Branch of the Art, Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam, 1996. Hamber, Anthony, et al. Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: V&A Publishing, 2018. Keeler, N.B., “Illustrating the ‘Reports by the Juries’ of the Great Exhibition of 1851; Talbot, Henneman, and Their Failed Commission,” History of Photography, vol. 6, no. 3, July 1982, 252–272. Taylor, Roger, & Larry J. Schaaf, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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