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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Birth of St. John
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

May, 1857
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
19.2 x 13.5 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 31962
79:1992:0014

INSCRIPTION: (printed on accompanying page) "Birth of St. John." "Photographed by Roger Fenton." "copied from a carving in yellow hone-stone, by Albert Durer, in the British Museum. The photograph is the same size as the carving." "Taken on Collodion, May, 1857, in sunshine; Exposure two and a half minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twenty inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm three- quarters of an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper with Chloride and Nitrate of Silver by R. Fenton"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC; updated 2/97, MAP.

SUBJECT: reproduction, carving / Birth of St. John, The

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