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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative at bottom right with monogram 'H. O.' Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of Bell's bronze sculpture of Andromeda, standing naked, a chain descending from her waist. Considerable fading in from edges.
Statue of Her Majesty (zinc); Vieille Montagne Company. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of the statue cast in zinc by the Vieille Montagne Company of Belgium, of Queen Victoria seated on her throne, placed on a large plinth. Considerable fading in from edges.
Window in plaster; Tunis. Photographer: Owen, Hugh
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative at bottom right corner of window with monogram 'H. O.' Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a plaster model of a marble lattice-work window from Tunis. Overall fading. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photog...
'Eve' (marble); Van der Ven. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of Van der Ven's sculpture of Eve seated with the serpent, set against a dark background. Fading in from edges and overall yellowing. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photographic Exhibition.
Photographic art treasures; or, nature and art illustrated by art and nature. By this new and beautiful art of engraving, the uncertainty of colour and the liability to fade, so objectionable in photographs, is obviated, while the detail and truth of nature is faithfully preserved. Photographer(s): Fenton, Roger
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Imprint: London: Published by the Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, Holloway Place, Holloway Road, Islington. December, 1856. Folio, published in parts, incomplete. With note on wrapper reading: 'Memo: This work was among those abstracted from the Liby. by the suicide Greenwood and found to be 3 ...
Raglan Castle, — Porch. Photographer: Fenton, Roger
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the archway, with a man and a woman posed beside a wheelbarrow in the foreground. Proof, published October 1856.