An Improved Sanger-Shepherd Density meter in maker's box; a half-plate coloured photograph on glass, gilt mounted, with applied paper label Wharton Simpson's Process; two Agfa colour quarter-plate studies of flowers.

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An Improved Sanger-Shepherd Density meter in maker's box; a half-plate coloured photograph on glass, gilt mounted, with applied paper label Wharton Simpson's Process; two Agfa colour quarter-plate studies of flowers.

Literature

Photographic Journal, (New Series IV, no. 3, January 1880), p. 57.

Lot Essay

George Wharton Simpson became editor of the the Photographic News in 1860. The Photographic Journal described his experiments: '...he produced, by printing, some of the hues of natural colours, but abandonded this fascinating portion of his work through pressure on his time'.

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