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Davies, Thomas
British (active ca 1850s-1860s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Wood-scene, Norton, Cheshire
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"

May 29, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from paper negative
16.6 x 21.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 8984
79:1992:0011

INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Wood-scene, Norton, Cheshire." "Photographed by Thomas Davies" "Through many a woodland dun, Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer-time away." "Keats" "Taken by the calotype process, May 29, 1856 about 11 A.M.; weather sunny; Exposure twenty-five minutes (usually five), owing to the foliage; developed with Gallic Acid and Silver." "Lens by Abrahams and Co., Liverpool; focal length fifteen inches; diameter three and a quarter inches; Diaphragm half an inch." "Printed on"...

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. Inscription, cont.: "albumenized paper, ten grains of Muriate of Ammonia, Silver sixty grains to ounce, toned with Sel d'Or, by Thomas Davies."

SUBJECT: landscape, woods

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