Lot 23
23
Autochromes
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Autochromes

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Autochromes
Seven 3¼ x 3¼ inch autochromes, six showing flower studies, one showing May Driffield; a collection of correspondence mainly between Philip R. Evans and R. M. Callender, copy photographs, auction catalogue Catalogue of the valuable cameras... and other effects...February 29th 1916, copy articles by Callender on Hurter and Driffield (7)
Provenance
V. C. Driffield by direct family descent to the present vendor.
Literature
R. M. Callender, 'Driffield's Autochromes' in Industrial & Commercial Photographer, April 1979, pp. 80-84.
R. M. Callender, 'Driffield's Cameras' in History of Photography, 7(1), January 1983, pp. 23-29.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

These autochromes were taken by Vero Driffield, the business partner of Ferdinand Hurter, and joint deviser of the H & D film speed system of 1890. The studies show the Driffield garden and Driffield's daughter May. Callender ascribed a tentative date of 1907 to the autochromes. May frequently was used by Driffield in his researches. The auction catalogue is of Driffield's possessions and is described by Callender (1983).

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