Photographic study of a well by Hugh Owen, 1850

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MS. 23051 photogr. 173

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Dates

Creation: 1850

Extent

1 item

Language of Materials

English

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MS. 23051 photogr. 173

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Wilson Centre Accession Number: 08:0847

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Hugh Owen was chief cashier for the Great Western Railway and an amateur photographer. He was an early member of the Edinburgh Calotype Club and founding member of the Photographic Society of London. Owen's calotypes were exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. His images so impressed the Commissioners that, along with his French contemporary Claude-Marie Ferrier, he was asked to make photographs documenting the exhibits.