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Mansell, Thomas Lukis, Dr.
English (1809-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Port de Dinan, Brittany
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June 28, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
21.7 x 26.1 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 9577
79:1992:0024

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Port de Dinan, Brittany." "Photographed by Thomas L. Mansell, M.D., A.B." "Taken on syruped Collodion, 6 A.M. June 28, 1856, in bright sunshine; Exposure forty-seven minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twelve and a half inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphram five eighths of an inch. Printed by the Sel d'Or process by T.L. Mansell." "Inverted in the tide stand the grey rocks and trembling shadows throw, And the fair trees look over side by side, And see"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "themselves below." "Longfellow" [there is also a passage writted by Mansell] For full passage refer to album.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, bridge
townscape, port

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