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Colour Photograph (Sanger Shepherd Lantern Slide) of a Peacock Feather (Blue Image), by E. Sanger Shepherd & Co., London, 1899

Inventory Number 29957


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Henry Minn in 1930. Minn acquired it from Sarah Angelina Acland, who died in that year.
Other inscriptions
Miss Acland's number labels [6] and 38.
Physical material
Glass
Celluloid
Object type
photograph
Dimensions
Height: 81mm Width: 81mm
Inventory No
29957
Accession Number
1930-26

Description

Part of the boxed set 69649. Sample slide illustrating the blue layer of the Sanger Shepherd process of colour photography, introduced in 1899-1900. The blue image (formed by the cyanotype process directly on the glass) is the strongest of the three.