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The Garden Chair 1854
Albumen print | 18.0 x 13.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2906205
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Photograph of a full length portrait of two women, photographed in a garden setting. The older woman on the left is seated in a wheelchair and wears a bonnet. She looks towards the camera. On the right of the photograph stands a young girl, facing three-quarters to the right and facing away from the camera. She holds part of the wheelchair. She wears a shawl and bonnet.
This photograph also appeared as one of the forty-four pictures by members of the Photographic Club in their Photographic Album for 1855. The plates were accompanied by a text and descriptions of the processes by which they had been made. The Garden Chair has a poem on the same theme by Dinah Maria Mulock, and the notes reveal that it was 'taken on Collodion, September 11 1854, about 1 pm in fine sunshine; exposure five seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid. Lens by Ross, focal length ten inches, diameter three inches, double Lens; Diaphragm three inches'.
Provenance
From an album of photographs collected and arranged by Prince Albert
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Creator(s)
(photographer)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
18.0 x 13.0 cm (image)
Featured in
ExhibitionCrown and Camera: The British Royal Family and Photography 1842-1910 : The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
The first Royal Collection exhibition to be entirely dedicated to photography
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