Peasants of the Alto-Douro
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Peasants of the Alto-Douro

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Bound volume

Joseph James Forrester

Maker
English, 1809–1862

Peasants of the Alto-Douro

From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857


September 1856
Albumenized salted paper print
Image: 18.4 × 14.2 cm (7 1/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
Purchase
1979.1992.0016
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Peasants of the Alto-Duoro. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOSEPH JAMES FORRESTER, F.S.A. / (BARON DE FORRESTER, IN PORTUGAL.)



[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, September, 1856, a fine evening; Exposure twenty / seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.

Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and half inches; / Diaphragm five-eighths of an inch.

Printed on albumenized paper by a friend.
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