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Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument' (recto)
Sketch of a tree trunk and distant mountains (verso)

Maker


1798-1863

Title

Manuscript 'On the use of the Camera as a Photographic Instrument' (recto)
Sketch of a tree trunk and distant mountains (verso)

Date of Production

August 1848

Medium

Brown ink and graphite on pale blue/green wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.1 cm
Width: 16.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.14.14

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 half a page, brown ink: should be allowed to dry hanging from / a corner on a board at an angle of about / 45.° not too near the fire, as it is disposed / to size. This done, the next thing is [sentence unfinished]; lower right, graphite: 14.

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