Study of a Head

Study of a Head

Digitized film strip
Bound volume

Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Maker
English, b. Sweden, 1813–1875

Study of a Head

From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857


March 22, 1857
Salted paper print
Overall: 17.1 x 14.5 cm (6 3/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Image: 17.1 × 14.5 cm (6 3/4 × 5 11/16 in.) (oval)
Purchase
1979.1992.0033
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Study of a Head. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY O. G.
REJLANDER.


[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, March 22, 1857, late in the afternoon; weather, / overcast, a gleam of yellow sunshine in the last second; Exposure twelve / seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.


Portrait lens by Ross; focal length sixteen and three-quarters of an inch; / diameter three and a quarter inches; Diaphragm one and three-quarters of an inch.

Printed by the sun process by O.G. Rejlander.
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