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Conway, C.
British (active ca 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Winter
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

February 1855
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
20.4 x 17.4 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31957
79:1992:0008

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Winter" "Photographed by C. Conway" "Taken on Collodion, Februrary 1855; weather, clear and frosty; Exposure one minute; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens (single) by A. Ross; focal length fourteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm five eighths of an inch." "Printed on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with gold, by John A. Spencer, Shepherd's Bush, London." (Poem by Mary Howitt) "There's not a flower upon the hill"...

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

SUBJECT: study, trees

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