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ANON

Portrait and view album, circa 1850 and later

With forty-eight photographs comprising one paper negative 7½ x 4 5/8 in., one salt print 8 5/8 x 5½ in. inscribed in pencil on verso "Set and toned with Hardwich's gold Bath - very easy & good", six other salt prints including an uncut stereo view and a vignetted landscape (illus.) 8½ x 10 5/8 in., three uncut albumen print stereos and thirty-seven albumen prints, various sizes, all but two only loosely inserted, two mounted on card, half red morocco gilt, 4to.

Literature

Eder, History of Photography, pp. 360 and 537-538

Lot Essay

T. Frederick Hardwich taught photography at King's College, London and first published his Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion Process in 1855. However, Eder gives a date between 1847 and 1850 for the introduction of gold salts for the toning of silver prints.

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