On the Toad to Watersmeet, near Lynton, North Devon
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On the Toad to Watersmeet, near Lynton, North Devon
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
August 1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 21.7 × 25.8 cm (8 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
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1979.1992.0029
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): On the Road to Watersmeet, near Lynton,
North Devon. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY ARTHUR JULIUS POLLOCK.
THE rugged mountain's scanty cloak / Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, / With
shingles bare, and cliffs between, / And patches bright of bracken green, / And heather black, that waved so high, / It held the copse in rivalry.
Scott.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, August, 1856; weather, fine, sunny; Exposure two / and a half minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-four inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
Printed on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with gold, by Henry Pollock.
North Devon. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY ARTHUR JULIUS POLLOCK.
THE rugged mountain's scanty cloak / Was dwarfish shrubs of birch and oak, / With
shingles bare, and cliffs between, / And patches bright of bracken green, / And heather black, that waved so high, / It held the copse in rivalry.
Scott.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, August, 1856; weather, fine, sunny; Exposure two / and a half minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twenty-four inches; diameter four inches; Diaphragm / half an inch.
Printed on ordinary albumenized paper, toned with gold, by Henry Pollock.
