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Sotheby's online auction of Classic Travel Photographs showcases works from the mid-19th - to the early 20th-century by Peter H. Emerson, Francis Frith, John Burke, William Saunders, Roger Fenton, and Gustave Le Gray, among others.
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The 2019 Royal Photographic Society Hurter & Driffield Memorial Lecture will be given by award winning…
Posted on January 4, 2019 at 13:30
Victorian 'Spirit Photographs'. Album of 29 photographs by Frederick Hudson and others. The majority of the photographs are evidently the work of a single photographer and are highly reminiscent of known photographs by F.M. Parkes. They are typical of "spirit photographs" produced in the late 1860s and early 1870s by manipulating collodion wet plates: "the photographs render…
Posted on July 5, 2017 at 17:00 — 1 Comment
The Garrett Herman collection is an unusually comprehensive group of works centred on Charles Darwin, his influences, and those who he influenced in turn.
At the outset of his collecting life, Mr Herman concentrated on books included in Printing and the Mind of Man and Bern Dibner’s Heralds of Science, including Adam Smith (see lots…
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Hi Richard I'm just finishing off writing the first Historical Group E-Newslettter which should be sent out on Friday. Can I suggest that you look at as soon as it arrives as there may be items in which you will be interested.
Best wishes and hope to see you soon, Donald.