- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Robert Adamson
- Provenance
- Presented by Dr Ernst Weil in 1949.
- Primary inscriptions
- Pencil inscriptions on back: 'dup in book' and 'no name | ?n/D'.
- Other inscriptions
- ?Modern pencil inscription on back: 'AK 9'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 178mm Width: 140mm
- Inventory No
- 15336
- Accession Number
- 1949-2/3
Description
Calotype (salted paper print from a calotype negative) of an unknown man, seated half-length partly turned to right, holding a thin cane. Rich brown, only slight fading to edges and corners; two marks or stains.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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