The Lower Fall

The Lower Fall

Bound volume

G. B. Gething

Maker
British

The Lower Fall

From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857


September 1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 18.5 × 22.6 cm (7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Purchase
1979.1992.0017
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Lower Fall. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY G.B.
GETHING.

DOWN it comes, From the rude mountain and the mossy wild, /
Tumbling through rocks abrupt and sounding far. /
Thomson.


[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion (wet), September, 1856; weather bright; Exposure / about ten minutes; devloped with Pyrogallic Acid.

Lens by Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three inches; Diaphragm / five-eighths of an inch.

Printed by the Sel d'Or process in old hypo. solution by G.B.Gething.
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