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Sturrock, John, Jr.
British (active 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Castle of the Mains, Forfarshire
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

September, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
20.1 x 24.8 cm. (imag)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31979
79:1992:0037

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "The Castle of the Mains, Forfarshire" "Photographed by John Sturrock, Jun." (passage about castle) "Taken on collodion (wet), in the middle of Setpember, 1856, between 4 and 5 P.M.; weather, clear sunny day; Exposure about four minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Lerebour and Secretan; focal length twenty-two inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm three-quarters of an inch." "Printed on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with Gold, by J.A. Spencer, Goldhawk Terrace, Shepherd's Bush, London."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, castle
portrait, male

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