The Court of Lions in the Alhambra
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The Court of Lions in the Alhambra
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
April 1855
Albumen silver print
Image: 12.9 × 20.1 cm (5 1/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Court of Lions in the Alhambra, Spain. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN G. CRACE.
[passage quoting Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra]
Unhappily all the delicate fretwork, anciently covered with gold and colour, / is now coated with whitewash; only hear and there are parts exposed, showing / how gorgeous and beautiful must this graceful work have appeared in its original / condition.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, April, 1855, in sunlight; Exposure one minute and / a half; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Lerebours; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper, coloured with Gold, by John G. Crace.
mount verso (in pencil): photographic album for the year 1857
[passage quoting Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra]
Unhappily all the delicate fretwork, anciently covered with gold and colour, / is now coated with whitewash; only hear and there are parts exposed, showing / how gorgeous and beautiful must this graceful work have appeared in its original / condition.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, April, 1855, in sunlight; Exposure one minute and / a half; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Lerebours; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper, coloured with Gold, by John G. Crace.
mount verso (in pencil): photographic album for the year 1857
