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Bedford, Francis
English (1816-1894)

TITLE ON OBJECT: At Pont y pair, Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
19.3 x 23.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31954
79:1992:0005

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining paper) "At Pont y pair, Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales" "Photographed by Francis Bedford" "An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock & wild cascade, And foaming brown with double force, Hurries its waters on their course." "W. Scott." "Taken on Collodion (wet), in the middle of June, 1856; weather bright sunny day, very hot; Exposure one minute; developed with one grain solution Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm three eighths of an inch." "Printed on"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "albumenized paper coloured with gold."

SUBJECTS:
architecture, houses
landscape, river

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