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Shadbolt, George
British (1830-1901)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Time of Promise
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

April 29, 1857
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
salted paper print from collodion negative
17.7 x 22.1 cm. , (arched top)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31977
79:1992:0035

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "The Time of Promise" "Photographed by George Shadbolt." "Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand." "Luke, chap xxi, ver. 29, 30." "Taken by Dr. Hill Norris' dry Collodion process, April 29, 1857, half-past 7 A.M.; weather, sunshiny; Exposure five minutes; developed with Pyrogallic and Citric Acids." "Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length fourteen inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphragm three quarters of an inch."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "Printed on Towgood's plain paper, Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver and Sel d'Or toning bath, sun printing, by Mr. Spencer, Goldhawk Terrace, Shepherd's Bush."

SUBJECTS:
landscape, country lane
landscape, trees

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