Study for a Picture
Bound volume
Study for a Picture
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
June 1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 16 × 19.4 cm (6 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Purchase
1979.1992.0025
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Study for a Picture. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY THOMAS G. MACKINLAY, ESQ., F.S.A.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, June, 1856 ; weather, fine ; Exposure half a minute ; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches ; diameter two and a half inches ; / Diaphragm five-eighths of an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper by a friend.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, June, 1856 ; weather, fine ; Exposure half a minute ; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches ; diameter two and a half inches ; / Diaphragm five-eighths of an inch.
Printed on albumenized paper by a friend.
