Babbacombe, from the Beach
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Babbacombe, from the Beach

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Alfred Batson

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Babbacombe, from the Beach

From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857


June 25 ca. 1857
Albumen silver print
Image: 20.5 × 27.8 cm (8 1/16 × 10 15/16 in.) (oval)
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Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Babbicombe, from the Beach. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALFRED BASTON.



[poem by Henry Cook]



[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, June 25, half-past 5 P.M. in the sunshine; Exposure two / minutes, forty seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid, three quarters of a / grain to one ounce
of water.

Lens by A. Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.

Printed on albumen, toned with chloride of gold, by Alfred Batson.
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