Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Flowers in vase and birds nest

ca. 1851
salted paper print
15.2 x 9.9 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 29416
81:1304:0010

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4839

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 110.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Cataloged 1/98, DZ. [inside cover of album] (in pencil) "Very early photographs. A collection of 71 early photographs about 1851. Those of the Great Exposition of 1851 in Hyde Park were apparently taken when the Exhibition was being arranged-? 1850. The family portraits may be of still earlier date. They may have been taken by Rob. Hunt, the Pioneer of photography in this Country, & W. Hunt, was possibly a relation... In 1844 R, Hunt pub. his 'Researches on Light...embracing all the known Photographic Processes & new Discoveries in the Art.' 1st edit. In 1854 a 2nd edit. appeared. He also wrote 'Photography, by the Daguerreotype & other Processes,' 1851. 2nd edit 185_[sic], 3rd edit. 1853. Also 'A Manual of Photography.'3rd edit 1853."

SUBJECTS:
study, floral
study, birds nest