- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Washington Teasdale
- Provenance
- Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949. From the collection of Richard Inwards.
- Primary inscriptions
- Inscribed on back: 'Mr Washington Teasdale | with his curve machine' [in Richard Inwards's hand].
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 73mm Width: 97mm
- Inventory No
- 54814
- Accession Number
- 1949-10
Description
Early gelatine print. Portrait of Washington Teasdale, half length, seated using his harmonograph or curve-generating machine, which is mounted on a bench or box of its own, and has various geared wheels and also a pendulum-like device. Horizontal format. Possibly a self-portrait.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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