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Mackinlay, Thomas
English (1809-1865)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Study for a Picture
ALBUM TITLE: --The Photographic Album for the Year 1857--, London: Photographic Exchange Club, 1857, pl. 25.//

June, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
16.0 x 19.4 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 8985
79:1992:0025

OLD GEH NUMBER: G4-2
NON-GEH NUMBER: 05.23

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Study for a Picture" "Photographed by Thomas G. Mackinlay, Esq., F.S.A." "Taken on Collodion June, 1856; weather, fine; Exposure half a minute; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphram five-eighths of an inch." "Printed on albumenized paper by a friend." inside album cover-(typed label) "Library of the George Eastman House G4-2" (printed bookplate label) "Henry T. Wood" (album spine-"05.23")

NOTES: Henry T. Wood's bookplate label is adhered to the inside cover of this album. Henry T. Wood's work is represented in plate 39 of the same album. Catalogued 1/91, MMC, updated 6/93, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
still life
artifact, helmet
artifact, horn
artifact, mandolin

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