Dr. David Livingstone
Bound volume
Dr. David Livingstone
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
April 15, 1857
Albumen silver print
Image: 14.6 × 10.6 cm (5 3/4 × 4 3/16 in.) (oval)
Purchase
1979.1992.0023
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Dr. Livingstone. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY J. E.
MAYALL.
[excerpt from Livingstone's "Discovery of Lake Ngami"]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, April 15, 1857 ; weather, cloudy ; Exposure eighteen / seconds ; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Voightlander ; focal length twelve inches ; diameter four inches ; Diaphragm / three inches.
Printed by the ordinary method by J. P. Mayall.
MAYALL.
[excerpt from Livingstone's "Discovery of Lake Ngami"]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, April 15, 1857 ; weather, cloudy ; Exposure eighteen / seconds ; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Voightlander ; focal length twelve inches ; diameter four inches ; Diaphragm / three inches.
Printed by the ordinary method by J. P. Mayall.
