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Started Aug 9, 2021
Beard colonial patentees
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Started this discussion. Last reply by John Hannavy Jun 13, 2009.
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"I am told the Daguerrotype image I recently posted and identified as Sir John originated on this site. When looking at registered members it appears James Morley a registered user of this site posted the image a while ago in the hope of identifying…"
"Quite by chance I happened to see a Daguerrotype of the Sir John on a Pinterest site. I don't do Pinterest so am unable to post a link but here is an image extracted from the site. The three images are now arranged as a triptych:"
"I am not a serious collector but have come by some wetplates of this era and I find them charming and wonderfully detailed. I might be interested in purchasing a wet plate such as this should it be for sale.
If you want to sell please send me a…"
"Thanks so much David we are thrilled to have the image so postitively identified
would there be a collection that might want to acquire the ambrotype? It wont mean much to Australian collectors.
regards Gael"
"Hello Gael - Hope the ID is useful.
Yes John is somewhat older in the CDV on the LHS. In this image he has achieved his knighthood and appears more mellow and a more considered gentleman. I do not own this image.
I have posted a comment under this…"
"Hi David Hawkshaw doesnt seem to have been in Bristol much what makes you think it is him other than resemblance he looks older in the cdv [?] you have than the ambrotype? regards Gael"
"Deaar David
Many many thanks for that ID I felt he had to be someone of significance
regards Gael"
"Having looked again at the image there will be no need to produce an HD scan or to remove the mount and case. The man is identifiable as Sir John Hawkshaw (1811-1891)."
"I am here to help identify the sitter and wonder if you have a scan or image of higher definition. There is something in the mans right hand but cannot with certainty identify what it is he is holding. Have you removed the frame and case? Easily…"
Information request: Beattie of Bristol ambrotype
Might anyone recognize the gent in this ambrotype by John Beattie of Bristol 1858-70s https://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/beattie-john he was a spiritualist and to take a portrait outside his studio might indicate a special sitter there is a masonic symbol on the lower edge…See More
"This sounds fascinating I could not see a catalogue referenced on the Photographers Gallery site does anyone know if there is one. I hope PG put all eight issues of teh original Review online for those of us not in London"
"The shrimal photo house Udaipur? might be this firm https://www.facebook.com/shrimalstudio/about
D Nasserwanji was a long running Parsi run studio in Bombay starting late 19th and under successive owners until the 1940s
Identification is…"
"Hi Vivienne I dont think the last word has been said at all Steichen and The Family of Man it was surely for the time one of the more daring and provocative gestures but in a cleverly cloaked way. The exhibition came to Australia and had…"
"Hi Vivienne It was the transparency of the hydrogen bomb
see
https://www.cluster-london.com/edward-steichens-the-family-of-man-article-cluster-pp-journal-2020"
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Information request: Beattie of Bristol ambrotype
Might anyone recognize the gent in this ambrotype by John Beattie of Bristol 1858-70s https://archives.cliftonbridge.org.uk/beattie-john he was a spiritualist and to take a portrait outside his studio might indicate a special sitter there is a masonic symbol on…
Posted on April 17, 2023 at 8:00 — 12 Comments
elephantonin process formula?
Might anyone have any details of a process introduced 1861 by Squire & Co for colouring a paper photograph to resemble a painting on ivory. It is was announced in Photographic News, vol . 5, no . 171, 13 December 1861, i
It was marketed as the elephantinon process and was evidently for making paper photographs look like paintings on ivory but with libraries shut I cant find the PN to consult.
The term is the ancient Greek name for a black dye made from burnt ivory but…
ContinuePosted on April 15, 2020 at 4:55 — 8 Comments
giant wet plates
Might anyone know about gigantic wet plate negatives 5 by 8 feet held in Fort St Cyr, France possibly of the new Paris Opera of 1875 or a 4 by 6.5 feet set in Berlin?
Gael
Posted on May 21, 2016 at 10:47 — 1 Comment
Basil Green London photographer m1951-54
I am seeking any information on Basil Green a London photographer in Manchester st W 1951-1954 who took a portrait of Australian writer Patrick White. I am wondering if he might be the same as the very hip Basil Green the founder of 'Vince' Menswear in the late 1950s.
Gael Newton
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 23:21 — 2 Comments
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- At 3:55 on February 27, 2018,
Nuno Borges de Araújo said…
Hello Gael,
You must contact the author Alexandre Ramires (Portuguese, living in Coimbra) to alexandreramiresjc@gmail.com
Best regards,
Nuno
- At 11:09 on August 1, 2014,
Peter Cattrell said…
Dear Gael - I didn't see any letters on George Lewis - there are probably a lot somewhere - try the IWM photo library or the National galleries of Scotland. I'm in a show at the SNPG openning this week so will email the curator about him. About ten years ago I was commissioned by the SNPG to print 20 of his negatives at the IWM darkroom, so I spoent some time looking at his prints with acurator first at the IWM and choosing which to print - there are over a thousand. Best wishes Peter
- At 2:13 on October 7, 2009,
Karen Magee said…
- Hi Gael, Hope you are having fun as well as getting your research done. Thanks for the tips. I have checked the Pitt Rivers catalogue but have been meaning to contact Elizabeth Edwards directly. I'd be interested to hear who else is working on photographs from the anthropological perspective. The survey of Australian photographs in UK collections sounds very interesting. There was a little of this in Julia Peck's Thesis (for which 100 thank yous!). Sweet seems to cut a very low profile in UK collections which surprises me.
Just writing up his transition to dry plates - your views on this were very helpful! If 'Instantaneous Process' can be taken to mean dry plates, he may have started using them as early as 1878 (not 1880 as I thought). Happy holiday / researching!
Karen
- At 7:22 on June 14, 2009,
wujiabao said…
- Dear Gael,
Hi, Yes, I do received the catalog from you. It was so pity that I could not attend the symposium you directed. Hope there will be another opportunities can makes me join.
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