About This Image

Albumen print, from a colodion negative.

6 x 7 inch oval, mounted to 12 x 11.5 inch board

Campbell was one of the 22 original members of the Photographic Exchange Club in London (1855-58) and a member of the Photographic Society of London. He contributed this photograph to "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857," organized within the Photographic Society of London.

Also See: "Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination," Grace Seiberling and the International Museum of Photography, 1986.

Illustrated: "Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875," Helmut Gernsheim, 1984, p.25; "A Thousand Hounds," Merritt & Barth, Taschen, 2000, p.29.

The Lesson
W.G. Campbell The Lesson

Price $12,500

Main Image
Description

Ref.# 1075

Medium Albumen Print

Mount on original mount

Photo Date 1857

Dimensions 6 x 7 in. (152 x 178 mm)

Photo Country United Kingdom (UK)

Photographer Country United Kingdom (UK)

Company
Charles Schwartz Ltd.



 

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