"Hush! lightly tread"

"Hush! lightly tread"

Print

Roger Fenton

Maker
English, 1819–1869

"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)
Purchase
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"

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