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Downes, G.
British (-1874)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Remains of the Abbey Church, Bury St. Edmonds [sic]
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

August 28, 1857
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
21.0 x 26.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31961
79:1992:0013

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Remains of the Abbey Church, Bury St. Edmonds." "Photographed by George Downes." "Taken on Collodion, August 28, in sunshine; Exposure forty-five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length eighteen inches; diameter three and a half inches; Diaphragm half an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper by Mrs. G. Downes." [passage about the church]

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC.

SUBJECT: architecture, abbey

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