The Castle of Chillon
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The Castle of Chillon
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
September 1855
Albumen silver print
Image: 15.7 × 19.4 cm (6 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
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Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Castle of Chillon. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY
SIR JOSCELYN COGHILL, BART.
[poem by Byron]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, September, 1855; weather, fine; Exposure about thirty / seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid one grain, water one ounce, Acetic / Acid fifteen
minims.
Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length about seventeen inches; diameter two and a / half inches; Diaphragm half an inch.
Those printed by Sir J. Coghill are toned with Tetrathionic Acid, and washed / with hot water; and those by Spencer are on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with / Gold.
SIR JOSCELYN COGHILL, BART.
[poem by Byron]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, September, 1855; weather, fine; Exposure about thirty / seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid one grain, water one ounce, Acetic / Acid fifteen
minims.
Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length about seventeen inches; diameter two and a / half inches; Diaphragm half an inch.
Those printed by Sir J. Coghill are toned with Tetrathionic Acid, and washed / with hot water; and those by Spencer are on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with / Gold.
