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Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument'
Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument' (verso)

Maker


1798-1863

Title

Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument'
Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument' (verso)

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.14.11

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: and long kept prepared. The following / is the best series of operation I am ac- / -quainted with for effecting good pictures / speedily - The first process is the production / of what Mr F. Talbot calls Iodized Paper - / In this as in all other scientific experiments / it is absolutely necessary, for success, to consider / the rationale of the operation - Here, it is / to spread upon paper an even surface of / Iodide of silver - I however find that the Iodide / of silver though individually the most sensitive; lower right, graphite: 11. Verso: beginning upper left and continuing spread across full page, brown ink: Mr. Marlowe says not - see below / see obss. at the end- / This process is Mr. Talbot's modified by the / obss. of others combined with the results of my / own experience - / Turners (Chafford Mills) is strongly recommended.

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