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Call Number:

PH-00857

Collection Name:

The Practice of Photography. A Manual for Students and Amateurs

Creator:

Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889 (1821 - 1889)

No. of Items:

1 photograph in 1 bound volume

Span Dates:

1853

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by Philip Henry Delamotte (English, 1820-1889) entitled The Practice of Photography. A Manual for Students and Amateurs (London: Joseph Cundall, 1853). The book contains one photograph described as a "calotype portrait taken by the collodion process." Print information follows.

964:0322:0001 -- [Woman with baby on her lap], 1853 or earlier. Salted paper print, 10.5 x 7.3 cm.

Accession No(s):

964:0322:0001; Purchase, 1963

Location(s):

f TR 146 D35 HRC-P (964:0322:0001)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889 (1821 - 1889)
Title [Woman with baby on her lap]
Date published 1853
Medium Albumen print
Dimensions 10.5 x 7.3 cm; 4 1/10 x 2 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0322:0001

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[Artist's Sketchbook] (964:0320:0002) f TR 655.11 P874 HRC-P

Phillip Henry Delamotte (964:0325:0001) 6G:LP:D Box, Small ; (964:0325:0002 ; ?) 6G:LP:D Box, Medium ; (964:0951:0001) 6G:LP:D Box, Large

The Practice of Photography: A Manual for Students and Amateurs. 1857 (964:0323:0001) f TR 146 D35 1857 HRC-P

Photographs Executed Expressly for the Crystal Palace Art Union (964:0321:0001-0009) f TR 6 D352 HRC-P

Holland House. 1874 (964:0319:0001-0038) q DA 687 H7 L7 HRC-P v.1-2

The Sunbeam, a Book of Photographs from Nature (964:0318:0004) f TR 721 D352 HRC-P

Photographic views of the progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, taken during the progress of the works, by desire of the directors (964:0317:0001-0160) f NA 6750 S98 HRC-P

Stereograph Collection (964:0806:0001 / S0276) 6G:FC:16:DR:01 ÒDelamotte, P.H.Ó

The Photographic Album for the Year 1857 (964:0324:0012) f TR 1 P568 HRC-P