Near the Pass of Nant Frangen, North Wales
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Near the Pass of Nant Frangen, North Wales
From the album The Photographic Album for the Year 1857
July 1856
Albumen silver print
Overall: 16.6 x 21.2 cm (6 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Image: 16.6 × 21.2 cm (6 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.) (rounded top corners)
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1979.1992.0034
Inscriptions (printed on facing page): Near the Pass of Nant Frangen, North
Wales. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALFRED ROSLING.
THE land where the clouds love to rest, /
Like the shroud of the dead, on the mountain's cold breast; /
To the cataract's roar where the eagle's reply, /
And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. /
Scott.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, July, 1856; weather, very stormy; Exposure about / two minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphragm half an inch.
Printed in the ordinary way by Alfred Rosling.
Wales. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALFRED ROSLING.
THE land where the clouds love to rest, /
Like the shroud of the dead, on the mountain's cold breast; /
To the cataract's roar where the eagle's reply, /
And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. /
Scott.
[italicized]:
TAKEN on Collodion, July, 1856; weather, very stormy; Exposure about / two minutes; developed with Pyrogallic Acid.
Lens by Ross; focal length twelve inches; diameter two and a half inches; Diaphragm half an inch.
Printed in the ordinary way by Alfred Rosling.
