Hever Castle, Kent
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Hever Castle, Kent
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
June 2, 1857
Albumen silver print
Image: 14.9 × 23.6 cm (5 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.) (rounded corners)
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1979.1992.0039
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Hever Castle, Kent. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY
HENRY THOMAS WOOD.
YE towers sublime, deserted now and drear; /
Ye woods, deep sighing to the hollow blast! /
The musing wand'rer loves to linger near, /
While history points to all your glories past.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, June 2, 1857; in sunshine; with slight wind; / Exposure twenty-five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic and Acetic Acids.
Lens by Horne and Thornthwaite; focal length twenty inches; diameter three / inches; Diaphragm three-quarters of an inch.
Process in Printing, floated twice on a fifty grain solution, by Melhuish, / Blackheath.
HENRY THOMAS WOOD.
YE towers sublime, deserted now and drear; /
Ye woods, deep sighing to the hollow blast! /
The musing wand'rer loves to linger near, /
While history points to all your glories past.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, June 2, 1857; in sunshine; with slight wind; / Exposure twenty-five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic and Acetic Acids.
Lens by Horne and Thornthwaite; focal length twenty inches; diameter three / inches; Diaphragm three-quarters of an inch.
Process in Printing, floated twice on a fifty grain solution, by Melhuish, / Blackheath.
