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Album of salt prints by Fallon Horne, 1850-1860

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MS. 23051 photogr. 2

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Album of salt prints by Fallon Horne showing images of his family and friends.

Dates

  • Creation: 1850-1860

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

  • English

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Shelfmark

MS. 23051 photogr. 2

Former reference:

Wilson Centre Accession Number: 03:7394; Wilson Centre Accession Number 2: TC 360

Biographical / Historical

Fallon Horne was co-owner of Horne, Thornthwaite, and Wood, a London firm specializing in photographic apparatus and chemicals. He exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts and the Photographic Institution and contributed a complete Daguerreotype apparatus at the Great Exhibition. He died at the age of forty-four while visiting the Isle of Thanet in Kent, where he was born.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased at Sotheby's UK, 22/05/2003, Lot 22

Physical Facet

Salt prints from a Calotype negative

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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