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Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument'

Maker


1798-1863

Title

Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument'

Date of Production

August 1848

Medium

Brown ink on pale blue/green wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.1 cm
Width: 16.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.14.10

Mode of Acquisition

A.A.D. Harding, bequest, 1954

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) and A.R. Harding; by descent to A.A.D. Harding; gift of A.A.D. Harding, 1954

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: beginning upper left and continuing for full page, brown ink: defined picture in the shortest time. / By too much enlarging the diaphragm we / admit much light, but lose distinctness & / vice versa ~ - Again for some purposes we / require a very rapidly ∴ a very sensitive / paper which for others this is not of so much / importance. Now in using the Talbotype / process - the more sensitive we make / the paper, the shorter time will it remain / sensitive or rather unspoilt for it / voluntarily embrowns if very sensitive [continues on next page]

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