Mrs Frances Jones, photo-crayotype, 1859
Mrs Frances Jones, 1859
On 8 December 1858 Edwin Dalton exhibited some unusual portraits at the Philosophical Society’s rooms in Sydney using his photo-crayotype process. Essentially salt paper prints or a projection over-painted with pastels, they would have been very similar to this portrait of Mrs Frances Jones that Dalton made a year later. There were several Australian photographic artists experimenting with painting over salt prints, but of the few whose images survived none matched the work produced by Dalton’s studio.
by Edwin Dalton
Photo-crayotype
presented May 1949
ML 1344
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RxAby1
Mrs Frances Jones, photo-crayotype, 1859
Mrs Frances Jones, 1859
On 8 December 1858 Edwin Dalton exhibited some unusual portraits at the Philosophical Society’s rooms in Sydney using his photo-crayotype process. Essentially salt paper prints or a projection over-painted with pastels, they would have been very similar to this portrait of Mrs Frances Jones that Dalton made a year later. There were several Australian photographic artists experimenting with painting over salt prints, but of the few whose images survived none matched the work produced by Dalton’s studio.
by Edwin Dalton
Photo-crayotype
presented May 1949
ML 1344
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RxAby1