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Forrester, Joseph James
English (1809-1862)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Peasants of the Alto-Douro
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

September, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
18.5 x 14.2 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31964
79:1992:0016

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Peasants of the Alto-Duoro" "Photographed by Joseph James Forrester, F.S.A. (Baron de Forrester, In Portugal.)" "Taken on Collodion, September, 1856, a fine evening: Exposure twenty seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and half inches; Diaphragm five- eighths of an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper by a friend."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, male
portrait, females

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