Maker: Stephen Thompson (1830 - 1892)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: albumen print

Size: 3" x 3"

Location: UK

Object No. 2013.628j

Shelf: PHO-1864

Publication: William Howitt, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Alfred W. Bennett, Bishopgate Without, 1864, pg 58

Other Collections:

Notes: In the 1861 exhibition of the Photographic Society in London, Thompson showed mostly collodion but also four waxed-paper architectural views. That same year he displayed similar subjects in the Architectural Photographic Association exhibition, and while the processes were not specified, it seems likely that at least some of them were from paper negatives as well. After Roger Fenton’s acrimonious separation from the British Museum, that institution relied on a number of photographers. Thompson was the most important of these, carrying out a number of projects for the museum in the 1860s and 1870s. In the end, however, the museum refused to make a permanent appointment for a photographer. That was not the first of Thompson’s problems. In the early 1850s he was the partner of William Wagstaff in the London studio of Wagstaff & Thompson. Wagstaff brought suit against him in 1856, trying to reclaim the 200 pounds he had paid for instruction. He had locked Thompson out of the studio and had hidden the cameras to hold for ransom, but Thompson broke in and retrieved them. The judge wisely ruled that, whereas the partnership should be dissolved, Wagstaff could not collect his tuition. Thompson’s lot improved after this incident. He received an award in the 1862 International Exhibition for his landscapes, architectural subjects, and reproductions of art. He later did contract work for the Autotype Company. (source: Luminous Lint)

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Maker: Edward Dossetter (1842-1919)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: autotype

Size: 5 1/4 in x 9 in

Location:

Object No. 2020.294d

Shelf: ART-1875

Publication: Frank Rede Fowke, The Bayeux Tapestry Reproduced in Autotype Plates under the sanction of the Science and Art Department of the Committee Council on Education, The Arundel Society, London, 1875

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Provenance:

Notes: The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered strip of linen over 65 metres long that dates from around the 11th century. The embroidery depicts events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The South Kensington Museum began thinking about making a photographic copy of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1869 (to add to their collection of replicas of famous art works). As a result of careful diplomatic negotiations, Joseph Cundall, the Victorian photographer, was given permission to photograph the entire Bayeux Tapestry in situ in 1872 for the Science and Art Department. Cundall arranged it through his company, and commissioned a photographer called Edward Dossetter to do the work. Dossetter went to Normandy between September and December of 1872 and made over 180 glass negatives, detailing each section of the tapestry. After completing this project Dossetter moved to British Columbia where he was the official photographer on the Canadian Indian Commission inspection tour in 1881, and then later, back in England was employed by The British Museum 1894-9 to make photographs of early prints.

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Maker: Edward Dossetter (1842-1919)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: autotype

Size: 5 1/4 in x 9 in

Location:

Object No. 2020.294c

Shelf: ART-1875

Publication: Frank Rede Fowke, The Bayeux Tapestry Reproduced in Autotype Plates under the sanction of the Science and Art Department of the Committee Council on Education, The Arundel Society, London, 1875

Other Collections:

Provenance:

Notes: The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered strip of linen over 65 metres long that dates from around the 11th century. The embroidery depicts events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The South Kensington Museum began thinking about making a photographic copy of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1869 (to add to their collection of replicas of famous art works). As a result of careful diplomatic negotiations, Joseph Cundall, the Victorian photographer, was given permission to photograph the entire Bayeux Tapestry in situ in 1872 for the Science and Art Department. Cundall arranged it through his company, and commissioned a photographer called Edward Dossetter to do the work. Dossetter went to Normandy between September and December of 1872 and made over 180 glass negatives, detailing each section of the tapestry. After completing this project Dossetter moved to British Columbia where he was the official photographer on the Canadian Indian Commission inspection tour in 1881, and then later, back in England was employed by The British Museum 1894-9 to make photographs of early prints.

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 11 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.241

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl 34

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker:

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: swantype

Size: 10" x 6 3/4"

Location:

Object No. 2018.0196

Shelf: C-3

Publication:

Other Collections:

Provenance: portlandpickers

Rank: 49

Notes: Engraved in the Swantype process by the Swan Electric Engraving Company. As early as 1865, Swan had

patented a halftone reproduction screen and by the

1890s the techniques he pioneered had been refined to

a level where they became commercially viable and

aesthetically desirable. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was a British physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the electric lights used in the world's first homes and public buildings (including the Savoy Theatre, London in 1881) to be lit with electric light bulbs. Also inventor of the "Carbon Process" (Autotype") and of the "Rapid Dry 'Plate". Engraved in "Swantype" by the Swan Electric Engraving Company

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Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 5 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073o

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Anthony Hamber, A Higher Branch of the Art, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, 1996, Ill 144

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Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Alphonse Poitevin (1819-1882)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: document

Size: 7 in x 10.5 in

Location: UK

Object No. 2010.241

Shelf: B-1

Publication:

Other Collections:

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print.

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Maker: Stephen Thompson (1830 - 1892)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: albumen print

Size: 3 1/4" x 3"

Location: UK

Object No. 2013.628i

Shelf: PHO-1864

Publication: William Howitt, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Alfred W. Bennett, Bishopgate Without, 1864, pg 49

Other Collections:

Notes: In the 1861 exhibition of the Photographic Society in London, Thompson showed mostly collodion but also four waxed-paper architectural views. That same year he displayed similar subjects in the Architectural Photographic Association exhibition, and while the processes were not specified, it seems likely that at least some of them were from paper negatives as well. After Roger Fenton’s acrimonious separation from the British Museum, that institution relied on a number of photographers. Thompson was the most important of these, carrying out a number of projects for the museum in the 1860s and 1870s. In the end, however, the museum refused to make a permanent appointment for a photographer. That was not the first of Thompson’s problems. In the early 1850s he was the partner of William Wagstaff in the London studio of Wagstaff & Thompson. Wagstaff brought suit against him in 1856, trying to reclaim the 200 pounds he had paid for instruction. He had locked Thompson out of the studio and had hidden the cameras to hold for ransom, but Thompson broke in and retrieved them. The judge wisely ruled that, whereas the partnership should be dissolved, Wagstaff could not collect his tuition. Thompson’s lot improved after this incident. He received an award in the 1862 International Exhibition for his landscapes, architectural subjects, and reproductions of art. He later did contract work for the Autotype Company. (source: Luminous Lint)

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 9 1/16 in x 14 1/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.288

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XXV

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Portrait of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. Born at Sunderland 31st October 1828, Died at Warlingham 27th May 1914. inventor of the Incandescent Electric lamp, of a formula for the manufacture of collodion, which is still in use, of the photographic ' Autotype' process. and about seventy other miscellaneous inventions. Partner in the firms of Mawson and Swan, Moseley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne and Mawson, Swan and Morgan, Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. -

Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 9 7/16 in x 14 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.240

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XVIII

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Stephen Thompson (1830 - 1892)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: albumen print

Size: 2 5/8" x 3 3/8"

Location: UK

Object No. 2013.628f

Shelf: PHO-1864

Publication: William Howitt, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Alfred W. Bennett, Bishopgate Without, 1864, pg 9

Other Collections:

Notes: In the 1861 exhibition of the Photographic Society in London, Thompson showed mostly collodion but also four waxed-paper architectural views. That same year he displayed similar subjects in the Architectural Photographic Association exhibition, and while the processes were not specified, it seems likely that at least some of them were from paper negatives as well. After Roger Fenton’s acrimonious separation from the British Museum, that institution relied on a number of photographers. Thompson was the most important of these, carrying out a number of projects for the museum in the 1860s and 1870s. In the end, however, the museum refused to make a permanent appointment for a photographer. That was not the first of Thompson’s problems. In the early 1850s he was the partner of William Wagstaff in the London studio of Wagstaff & Thompson. Wagstaff brought suit against him in 1856, trying to reclaim the 200 pounds he had paid for instruction. He had locked Thompson out of the studio and had hidden the cameras to hold for ransom, but Thompson broke in and retrieved them. The judge wisely ruled that, whereas the partnership should be dissolved, Wagstaff could not collect his tuition. Thompson’s lot improved after this incident. He received an award in the 1862 International Exhibition for his landscapes, architectural subjects, and reproductions of art. He later did contract work for the Autotype Company. (source: Luminous Lint)

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Maker: Stephen Thompson (1830 - 1892)

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: albumen print

Size: 3 1/8" x 3"

Location: UK

Object No. 2013.628w

Shelf: PHO-1864

Publication: William Howitt, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland, Alfred W. Bennett, Bishopgate Without, 1864, pg 182

Other Collections:

Notes: In the 1861 exhibition of the Photographic Society in London, Thompson showed mostly collodion but also four waxed-paper architectural views. That same year he displayed similar subjects in the Architectural Photographic Association exhibition, and while the processes were not specified, it seems likely that at least some of them were from paper negatives as well. After Roger Fenton’s acrimonious separation from the British Museum, that institution relied on a number of photographers. Thompson was the most important of these, carrying out a number of projects for the museum in the 1860s and 1870s. In the end, however, the museum refused to make a permanent appointment for a photographer. That was not the first of Thompson’s problems. In the early 1850s he was the partner of William Wagstaff in the London studio of Wagstaff & Thompson. Wagstaff brought suit against him in 1856, trying to reclaim the 200 pounds he had paid for instruction. He had locked Thompson out of the studio and had hidden the cameras to hold for ransom, but Thompson broke in and retrieved them. The judge wisely ruled that, whereas the partnership should be dissolved, Wagstaff could not collect his tuition. Thompson’s lot improved after this incident. He received an award in the 1862 International Exhibition for his landscapes, architectural subjects, and reproductions of art. He later did contract work for the Autotype Company. (source: Luminous Lint)

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 14 1/4 in x 9 3/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.289

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XXIX

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 9 1/4 in x 14 3/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.291

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XL

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 7 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073g

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 9 5/8 in x 13 3/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.290

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XLI

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 9 3/4 in x 14 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.286

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XIII

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Marcel-Gustave Laverdet (1816-1886)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size: 10 1/4 in x 13 7/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.287

Shelf: C-67

Publication: Choix de Terres Cuites Antiques du Cabinet de M. le Vicomte Hte de Janze, Photographiees par M. Laverdet et Reportees sur Pierre Lithographique par M. Poitevin, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, et Cie, Paris, 1857, pl XIX

Other Collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bibliotheque national de France, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

Provenance: Explorations Photographiques, Yann Le Mouel, March 30, 2021, Lot 129

Rank: 34

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker:

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: photolithograph - Poitevin process

Size:

Location:

Object No. 2014.371

Shelf: B-1

Publication: Vue du pavillon sud-ouest pendant le montage des pavillons Baltard. Published in La Revue generale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, February, 1856, pl 41

Nouvelle de l'estampe, Revue du Comite national de la Gravure francaise, no. 108, Decembre, 1989, pg 19

Michel Frizot, Nouvelle histoire de la photographie, 1994, pg

200

Robert A. Sobieszek, This Edifice Is Colossal, George Eastman House, Rochester, 1987, fig 104

David Hanson, Checklist of Photomechanical Processes and Printing 1825-1910, 2017, pg 109

Other Collections: GEH (Cromer Collection)

Provenence: PHOTOGRAPHIES XIXe-XXe-Une collection française, 6/12/14, ENGHIEN LES BAINS, lot 3

Rank: 1154

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 5 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073h

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

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Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 5 1/8 in x 6 1/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073l

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Alphonse Poitevin (1822-1912)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: albumen print

Size: 3.5" x 2.3"

Location: Italy

Object No. 2016.982

Shelf: B-1

Publication: Prestige de la Photographie, No 2, Editions e.p.a.,

Boulogne, 1977, pg 27

William Crawford, The Keepers of the Light, Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, 1979, pg 71

Yvan Christ, 150 Ans de Photographie Francaise, Photo Revue Publications, Paris, 1979, pg 57

Helmut Gernsheim, The Rise of Photography 1850-1880, The Age of Collodion, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, pg 253

Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography, 1969, McGraw-Hill, New York, fig 216

Other Collections: GEM

Provenance:

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print.

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The device in the middle looks like a Sawyer Carbon print meter from around 1880, the other ones are Autotype print meters from around 1900

Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 4 3/4 in x 8 7/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073i

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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NOS BMW 2002tii Touring badge.

Here's a nice example of an original 2002tii Touring. And here's its badging.

Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 8 iin x 5 3/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073f

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Autotype

Call number AL IV/5/1

Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 4 7/8 in x 6 3/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073u

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Alphonse Poitevin (1819-1882)

Born: France

Active: France

Medium: document

Size: 7 in x 10.5 in

Location: UK

Object No. 2010.240

Shelf: B-1

Publication:

Other Collections:

Notes: Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print.

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Maker: Nicholas and Curths

Born: UK

Active: India

Medium: autotype

Size: 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in

Location:

Object No. 2017.058k

Shelf: PHO-1873

Publication: Marshall, William E., and G U. Pope. A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas, Or, the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India: History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1873. pg 207

Other Collections:

Provenance:

Notes: From a “phrenological enquiry into the nature the barbarous races”. Of the 26 illustrations, 14 are from life and most if not all were taken by the well-known firm of Bourne & Shepherd as well as by Simla and Nicholas and Curths of Madras. They are interesting as they combine the exotic appeal of the primitive Indians with the careful vision of the recording scientist and anthropologist. “A particularly effective illustration of how photography could serve the needs of phrenology and physiognomy as applied to racial types” (Beauty of Another Order, p. 129) and a beautiful and classic example of the Autotype Company's use of the recently invented collotype ("Permanent illustrations by the Autotype Process” - Rye patent) and the application of improved photo-mechanical technique in scientific applications. (Hanson 1873:6)

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Maker: Nicholas and Curths

Born: UK

Active: India

Medium: autotype

Size: 1 5/8" x 5 1/4"

Location:

Object No. 2017.058e

Shelf: PHO-1873

Publication: Marshall, William E., and G U. Pope. A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas, Or, the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India: History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1873. pg 38

The Photographic Collector, Vol 5 No 1, pg 33

David Hanson, Checklist of Photomechanical Processes and Printing 1825-1910, 2017, pg 58

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Provenance:

Notes: From a “phrenological enquiry into the nature the barbarous races”. Of the 26 illustrations, 14 are from life and most if not all were taken by the well-known firm of Bourne & Shepherd as well as by Simla and Nicholas and Curths of Madras. They are interesting as they combine the exotic appeal of the primitive Indians with the careful vision of the recording scientist and anthropologist. “A particularly effective illustration of how photography could serve the needs of phrenology and physiognomy as applied to racial types” (Beauty of Another Order, p. 129) and a beautiful and classic example of the Autotype Company's use of the recently invented collotype ("Permanent illustrations by the Autotype Process” - Rye patent) and the application of improved photo-mechanical technique in scientific applications. (Hanson 1873:6)

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Maker: The Autotype Company

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbro print

Size: 5.1/2 in x 8 1/2 in

Location:

Object No. 2010.085

Shelf: F-3.5

Publication:

Other Collections:

Notes: Carbro Printing Manual - Published by The Autotype Company, London

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Maker: Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936)

Born: Cuba

Active: UK

Medium: photogravure

Size: 5 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in

Location: UK

Object No. 2012.739

Shelf: A-13

Publication:

Pictures of East Anglian Life, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1888, pl XV

McWilliams & Sekules, ed. --Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson, Art & Photography in East Anglia, 1885-1900.-- Norwich, England: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 1986. p. 114

Turner and Wood, PH Emerson, Photographer of Norfolk, David R. Godine, Boston, 1974, pl 18

Other Collections: GEH

Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions, London, auction No. 35764, December 2, 2010, Lot 7

Rank: 176

Notes: In the book, Emerson describes this scene as follows:

"This is Blackshore on the River Blythe - Blackshore, of which we read that once spacious warehouses were erected on its wharf 'for the stowage of nets and other stores, one room of which is capable of holding a thousand tons of salt;' that a dock was made there in 1783, and that in the same year twenty fishing-busses met there for the white-herring fishery. It seems this quay was made in James the First's reign, and must have been the scene of busy life when Dunwich, Walberswick, and Southwold were flourishing with their fisheries; but as the greater places fell to nothingness, so has this little place proportionately fallen into utter decay..."

Emerson spent much time in his field trips on the Broads observing and interviewing the locals, recording dialect, native customs and folklore. --Pictures of East Anglian Life-- is a rather quirky anthropological study of Norfolk and Suffolk peasantry illustrated with photographs. ... Some of the material for the volume he gathered already while on his trip in 1885 with Goodall... He spent three months on the Broads again in the summer of 1886 and finished the manuscript in July 1887. He stated in the preface: 'I have endeavoured in the plates to express sympathetically various phases of peasant and fisherfolk life...' The photographs are some of the most obviously documentary of all of his work; they are less contrived than the genre scenes..., yet the emphasis on poetry and sentiment is quite evident. The plates were reproduced in photogravure by the Autotype Company, the Typo Engraving Company and Messrs Walker & Boutall. (GEH)

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Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 5 in x 6 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073k

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Anthony Hamber, A Higher Branch of the Art, Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, 1996, Ill 143

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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Maker: Charles Chardon / Dujardin

Born: France

Active:France

Medium: Dujardin process heliogravure

Size: 4" x 5"

Location: France

Object No. 2014.272b

Shelf: PER-1883

Publication: Bulletin de la Societe Francaise de Photographie of April 6, 1883

Raymond Lecuyer, Histoire de la Photographie, Baschet et Cie, Paris, 1945, pg 253

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed below image: Heliog Dujardin, Alphonse Poitevin 1819-1882, Ancien Eleve de l'Ecole Centrale Promotion de 1843, Inventeur de la Photographie Inalterable. Imp. Ch Chardon.

Alphonse Louis Poitevin (Conflans-sur-Anille, 1819 – Conflans-sur-Anille, 1882) was a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer who discovered the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and invented both the photolithography and collotype processes. He has been described as "one of the great unheralded figures in photography". In the 1850s he discovered that gelatin in combination with either potassium or ammonium bichromate hardens in proportion to the amount of light that falls on it. This discovery, significant for its capacity to facilitate the mass production of photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic printing processes such as heliogravure, photogravure, collotype, autotype and carbon print. (Source: Wikiwand)

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Maker:

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: swantype

Size: 10" x 6 3/4"

Location:

Object No. 2018.379

Shelf: C-3

Publication:

Other Collections:

Provenance: portlandpickers

Rank: 65

Notes: Engraved in the Swantype process by the Swan Electric Engraving Company. As early as 1865, Swan had

patented a halftone reproduction screen and by the

1890s the techniques he pioneered had been refined to

a level where they became commercially viable and

aesthetically desirable. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was a British physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the electric lights used in the world's first homes and public buildings (including the Savoy Theatre, London in 1881) to be lit with electric light bulbs. Also inventor of the "Carbon Process" (Autotype") and of the "Rapid Dry 'Plate". Engraved in "Swantype" by the Swan Electric Engraving Company

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Rebadged the 528i Touring with a vintage BMW 2002tii Touring badge. Cheeky.

Here's a nice example of an original 2002tii Touring.

www.macdermid.co.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/automot...

The MacDermid Automotive Summit, held in Kawasaki City on September 5, 2014, brought together Japan's automotive OEMs and their supply chain to educate the market on innovative trends in surface treatment. Leading experts from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S. spoke about MacDermid's dynamic chemistries for the global automotive industry.

Representatives from Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese manufacturers participated in discussions on the following topics:

"ZinKlad System - from Zinc/Zinc Alloy Plating to Friction Control"

"High Alloy Zinc Nickel Deposit - Enviralloy NiFlex12’s Ductility and Other Features"

"Cobalt-free Passivation System and the Update on European Legislation"

"Optimized Plating Solutions for MID (Molded Interconnect Devices)"

"Russian Mud Testing; Investigation of Anti-Corrosion Mechanism"

"evolve" Chrome-free Etching Process on Plastic Materials"

"Electroless Nickel - Engineering Coatings & Automotive Applications"

"Film Insert Molding: A Hardcoated Film for Plastic Parts"

"MacDermid: Your Global Supply Chain Partner"

Maker: Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) and Kidd

Born: UK

Active: UK

Medium: carbon print

Size: 7 15/16 in x 4 5/8 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.073q

Shelf: ART-1870

Publication: Specimens of the drawings of ten masters, from the Royal collection at Windsor castle.

Michelangelo. Perugino. Raphael. Julio Romano. Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgino. Paul Veronese. Poussin. Albert D"urer. Holbein. Descriptive text by B.B. Woodward, Macmillan and Co, London, 1870, pg 46

Other Collections:

Notes: Printed in carbon by Edwards and Kidd under license of the Autotype Company, Limited. Ernest Edwards was an owner of the photographic studio and printers Edwards and Kidd at 22 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London

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