The Lesson
Bound volume
The Lesson
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
May 1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 15.1 × 17.7 cm (5 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.) (oval)
Mount: 31.5 x 44 cm (12 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
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Inscriptions (printed on facing page): The Lesson. / PHOTGRAPHED BY W. G.
CAMPBELL.
[poem, possibly by maker]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, May, 1856, 11 A.M.; weather cloudy; Exposure / seven seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length thirteen iches; diameter three and a quarter inches; / Diaphragm two and a half inches.
Printed on Marion's paper, sensitized with a sixty grain solution of Nitrate of / Silver, and toned with Chloride of Gold, by W.G. Campbell.
CAMPBELL.
[poem, possibly by maker]
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, May, 1856, 11 A.M.; weather cloudy; Exposure / seven seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length thirteen iches; diameter three and a quarter inches; / Diaphragm two and a half inches.
Printed on Marion's paper, sensitized with a sixty grain solution of Nitrate of / Silver, and toned with Chloride of Gold, by W.G. Campbell.
