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Rosling, Alfred
English (1802-1880s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Near the Pass of Nant Frangen, North Wales
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

July, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
16.6 x 21.2 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31976
79:1992:0034

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Near the Pass of Nant Frangen. North Wales." "Photographed by Alfred Rosling." "The land where the clouds love to rest, Like the shroud of the dead, on the mountain's cold breast; To the cataract's roar where the eagle's reply, And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky." "Scott." "Taken on Collodion, July 1856; weather, very stormy; exposure about two minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and a hlaf inches; diaphragm half an inch." "Printed in the"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "ordinary way by Alfred Rosling."

SUBJECTS:
landscape, rocks
architecture, bridge
landscape, water

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