Piscator, No. 2
Bound volume
Piscator, No. 2
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
June 1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 24.2 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Purchase
1979.1992.0020
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Piscator, No. 2. / PHOTOGRPAHED BY J. D.
LLEWELYN.
AND in the weedy moat, the heron fond /
Of solitude alighted. /
The moping heron motionless and stiff, /
That on a stone as silently and stilly /
Stood, an apparent sentinel, as if /
To guard the water-lily.
THOMAS HOOD.
[italicized]:
TAKEN by the Oxymel process, June, 1856; weather dull; Exposure twenty / minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-three inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
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LLEWELYN.
AND in the weedy moat, the heron fond /
Of solitude alighted. /
The moping heron motionless and stiff, /
That on a stone as silently and stilly /
Stood, an apparent sentinel, as if /
To guard the water-lily.
THOMAS HOOD.
[italicized]:
TAKEN by the Oxymel process, June, 1856; weather dull; Exposure twenty / minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-three inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
[This page is attached to the matted image page]
