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Coghill, Joscelyn
Irish (1826-1905)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Castle of Chillon
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photograhic Album for the Year 1857"

September 1855
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
15.7 x 19.4 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31956
79:1992:0007

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page): "The Castle of Chillon" "Photographed by Sir Joscelyn Coghill, Bart." "Taken on Collodion, September, 1855; Weather fine; Exposure about thirty seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid one grain, water one ounce, Acetic Acid fifteen minims." "Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length about seventeen inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphragm half an inch." "Those printed by Sir F. Coghill are toned with Tetrathionic Acid, and washed with hot water; and those by Spencer are on ordinary"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: albumenized paper, toned with Gold." (Poem by Byron) "Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls"... For entire poem refer to album.

SUBJECT: architecture, castle / Castle of Chillon

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