The Time of Promise
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The Time of Promise
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
April 29, 1857
Salted paper print
Image: 17.7 × 22.1 cm (6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.) (top corners rounded)
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1979.1992.0035
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Time of Promise. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY
GEORGE SHADBOLT.
"BEHOLD the fig tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot / forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is / now nigh at hand. --[italicized]:Luke, chap xxi, ver. 29, 30.
[italicized]:
TAKEN by Dr. Hill Norris' dry Collodion process, April 29, 1857, half- / past 7 A.M.;
weather, sunshiny; Exposure five minutes; developed with / Pyrogallic
and Citric Acids.
Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length fourteen inches; diameter two and a half / inches; Diaphragm three quarters of an inch.
Printed on Towgood's plain paper, Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver and Sel d'Or / toning bath, sun printing, by Mr. Spencer, Goldhawk Terrace, Shepherd's-bush.
GEORGE SHADBOLT.
"BEHOLD the fig tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot / forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is / now nigh at hand. --[italicized]:Luke, chap xxi, ver. 29, 30.
[italicized]:
TAKEN by Dr. Hill Norris' dry Collodion process, April 29, 1857, half- / past 7 A.M.;
weather, sunshiny; Exposure five minutes; developed with / Pyrogallic
and Citric Acids.
Lens by F.S. Archer; focal length fourteen inches; diameter two and a half / inches; Diaphragm three quarters of an inch.
Printed on Towgood's plain paper, Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver and Sel d'Or / toning bath, sun printing, by Mr. Spencer, Goldhawk Terrace, Shepherd's-bush.
