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
Width: 16.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1954.AH.14.8
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 continuing for full page, brown ink: With regard to compound lenses - Talbot / uses Cherahers [?], & Voytlanders are also / strongly recommended - The expense of / the latter prevents their being better known. / I believe however that a single meniscus / of three inches or three inches & a half / or even four in diameter with a / focal length of twelve inches and a / diaphragm two inches or two & a half / in advance of it would be by far the [continues on next page]; lower right, graphite: 8.
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