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Batson, Alfred
British (active ca 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Babbicombe, from the Beach [sic]
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June 25 ca. 1857
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
20.5 x 27.8 cm. , (oval)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31953
79:1992:0004

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Babbicombe, from the Beach." "Photographed by Alfred Batson." "Taken on Collodion, June 25, half- past 5 p.m. in the sunshine; Exposure of two minutes, forty seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid, three quarters of a grain to one ounce of water." "Lens by A. Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm half an inch." "Printed on albumen toned with chloride of gold, by Alfred Batson." (Poem by Henry Cook)

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. For full poem refer to album.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, cottage
landscape, rocky

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