Birth of St. John
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Birth of St. John
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
May 1857
Albumen silver print
Image: 19.3 × 13.5 cm (7 5/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
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Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Birth of St. John. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY
ROGER FENTON.
COPIED from a carving in yellow hone-stone, by Albert / Durer, in the British Museum. The photograph is the same / size as the carving.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, May, 1857, in sunshine; Exposure two and a half / minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / three-
quarters of an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper with Chloride and Nitrate of Silver by R. Fenton.
ROGER FENTON.
COPIED from a carving in yellow hone-stone, by Albert / Durer, in the British Museum. The photograph is the same / size as the carving.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, May, 1857, in sunshine; Exposure two and a half / minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / three-
quarters of an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper with Chloride and Nitrate of Silver by R. Fenton.
