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Gething, G.B.
British (active ca 1850s)

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

September, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
18.6 x 22.7 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31965
79:1992:0017

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "The Lower Fall" "Photographed by G.B. Gething." "Down it comes, From the rude mountain and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt and sounding far." "Thomson." "Taken on Collodion (wet), September, 1856; weather bright; Exposure about ten minutes; devloped with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm five-eighths of an inch." "Printed by the Sel d'Or process in old hypo. solution by G.B. Gething."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC.

SUBJECT: landscape, waterfalls

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