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Apropos George Shaw.

Robert Hunt reviewing the photography exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Art Journal's Illustrated Catalogue of Industry of all Nations, observes: '...Some examples of forest scenery,and picturesque bits, selected with artistic taste from "the ancestral homes of England," are perfect studies for the artist to dwell upon...these are the productions of Mr Shaw of Birmingham who unites the skill of an artist with the experience gained by the long study of chemical science.' 

Does this exhibited work of his, I wonder, survive?

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