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Wood, Henry Thomas
British (active 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Hever Castle, Kent
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

June 2, 1857
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
albumen print from collodion negative
14.9 x 23.6 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31981
79:1992:0039

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Hever Castle, Kent." "Photographed by Henry Thomas Wood." "Ye towers sublime, deserted now and drear: Ye woods, deep sighing to the hollow blast! The musing wand'rer loves to linger near, while history points to all your glories past." "Taken on Collodion, June, 1857; in sunshine; with slight wind; Exposure twenty-five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic and Acetic Acids." "Lens by Horne and Thornthwaite; focal length twenty inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm three-quarters of an inch." ...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "Process in Printing, floated twice on a fifty grain solution, by Melhuish, Blackheath."

SUBJECT: architecture, castle / Hever Castle

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