"Hush! lightly tread"
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"Hush! lightly tread"
"Photographic Art Treasures", Part III, March 1857
March 1857
Photogravure (Photogalvanograph), printed 1857 by R. Holdgate
19.3 x 16.1 cm. (arched top)
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1981.1282.0001
Inscriptions recto-(printed on mount below image) "'Hush! lightly tread'". "'Hush!
lightly tread still tranquillity she sleeps/I've watched suspending
even my breath, in fear/To break The heavenly spell/Move silently"
"Photographic Art Treasures" "Engraved on Copper by Voltaic
Electricity, printed with Printer's Ink in the ordinary manner.
Published March 1857 by the Photo-Galvano Company. London. Proof.
Photographer R. Fenton. Printed by R. Holdgate"; (blindstamped)
"The Patent Photo-Galvanographic Company. Holloway. London"
lightly tread still tranquillity she sleeps/I've watched suspending
even my breath, in fear/To break The heavenly spell/Move silently"
"Photographic Art Treasures" "Engraved on Copper by Voltaic
Electricity, printed with Printer's Ink in the ordinary manner.
Published March 1857 by the Photo-Galvano Company. London. Proof.
Photographer R. Fenton. Printed by R. Holdgate"; (blindstamped)
"The Patent Photo-Galvanographic Company. Holloway. London"
