On board the yacht "Maraquita"
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Photograph
Lovell Reeve
English, 1814–1865
On board the yacht "Maraquita"
From "The Stereoscopic Cabinet, or Monthly Packet of Pictures for the Stereoscope", No.I
November 1859
Albumen silver print
7.0 x 7.0 each on 8.5 x 17.3 cm. mount
Purchase
1986.0947.0003
Inscriptions verso-(printed label) "On board the yatch 'Maraquita'. Iceland is not
the most tempting field in the world either for the yachtsman or for
the nautical photographer, but to that inhospitable region Captain
Henry, of the Dublin St. George's Yacht Club, directed his course in
the spring of last year, provided with guns for shooting wild-fowl and
a camera for securing reminiscences of the country. Captain Henry's
first Stereograph, kindly contributed to our 'Cabinet', was however
taken on the passage out..."
the most tempting field in the world either for the yachtsman or for
the nautical photographer, but to that inhospitable region Captain
Henry, of the Dublin St. George's Yacht Club, directed his course in
the spring of last year, provided with guns for shooting wild-fowl and
a camera for securing reminiscences of the country. Captain Henry's
first Stereograph, kindly contributed to our 'Cabinet', was however
taken on the passage out..."
