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Ransome, Robert Charles
British (active ca 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Sparrowe's House
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

1853
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
salted paper print
19.8 x 16.7 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31974
79:1992:0032

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Sparrowe's House." "Photographed by Robert Charles Ransome." (passage about house) "Taken by Buckle's Calotype process in 1853; weather, bright and clear; Exposure fifteen minutes; developed in the usual way." "Lens by Ross; focal length fourteen inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphragm five- eighths of an inch. Printed by T. Sutton with his developing process."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. For full passage about house, refer to album.

SUBJECT: architecture, house

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