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Pollock, A. Julius
English (1835-1890)

TITLE ON OBJECT: On the road to Watersmeet, near Lynton, North Devon
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

August, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
21.7 x 25.8 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31971
79:1992:0029

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "On the Road to Watersmeet, near Lynton, North Devon." "Photographed by Arthur Julius Pollock." "The rugged mountain's scanty cloak was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, with shingles bare, and cliffs between, And patches bright of bracken green, And heather black, that waved so high, It held the copse in rivalry." "Scott." "Taken on collodion, August, 1856; weather, fine, sunny; Exposure two and a half minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-four inches; diameter"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription: "four inches; diaphram half an inch." "Printed on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with gold, by Henry Pollock."

SUBJECT: landscape, hilly

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