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Delamotte, Philip Henry
English (1820-1889)

TITLE ON OBJECT: View in Central Hall, Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
ALBUM TITLE: "Photographers Club Album of the Year 1857".

1857
albumen print from collodion negative
22.8 x 17.7 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31960
79:1992:0012

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "This Edifice is Colossal: 19th Century Architectural Photography", US, NY, Rochester November 8, 1986 - January 4, 1987. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "View in Central Hall, Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857." "Photographed by Philip H. Delamotte." "Taken on collodion (wet), May, 1857; weather fine; Exposure three and a half minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length fourteen inches; diameter three inches; diaphragm three- quarters of an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper, in the Photographic department, King's College." (poem by Keats, begins) "A Thing of beauty is a joy forever"...

NOTES: Catalogued 2/86, JL, updated 7/86, SB, updated 1/91, MMC. For entire Keats poem see album.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, interior
architecture, art gallery

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