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Anthony, Mark
British (1817-1886)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Wild Flowers
ALBUM TITLE: --The Photographic Album for the Year 1857--, London: Photographic Exchange Club, 1857, pl. 3//

June, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print
20.8 x 15.7 cm.
Museum purchase, ex-collection A. E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31952
79:1992:0003

OLD GEH NUMBER: G4-2
NON-GEH NUMBER: 05.23

INSCRIPTION: printed on adjoining page- "Taken on Collodion, June 1856; weather, sunny morning; Exposure twenty-five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid. Lens, French (name unknown); focal length fifteen inches; diameter, combination, four and a half and six inches; Diaphragm one inch. Printed on Toogood's plain paper, Ammonio-Nitrate of silver and Sel d'Or toning bath, by Spencer." "Wild flowers. Photographed by Mark Anthony." "The flowers were beautiful to me, when childhood lured the way...Mrs. Sigourney."

NOTES: Henry T. Wood's bookplate label is adhered to the inside cover of this album. Henry T. Wood's work is represented in plate 39 of the same album. This album is also labeled with a Library of the George Eastman House sticker with the typed number G4-2. The spine is labeled with the number 05.23. Catalogued 6/93, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
portrait, girl
study, allegorical

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