View of a country house from the garden, Waterson, England
ca. late 1850s
Albumen silver print
comp.: 20.7 x 28.4 cm mat: 35.5 x 43.2 cm secondary support: 26.7 x 35.8 cm sheet: 20.7 x 28.4 cm
PH1981:0590:002
inscribed - Dorset Photographically Illustrated/BY MR. JOHN POUNCYPHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, DORCHESTER. (printed on label affixed to mountnear upper edge, verso) Waterson the garden Front (in pencil, in unknownhand, on label affixed to mount, LC, verso) DORCHESTER, PHOTOGRAPHICINSTITUTION, HIGH WEST STREET, JOHN POUNCY, EXECUTES, PHOTOGRAPHICPORTRAITS, AND VIEWS, of every description, (sunshine not necessary) thusin a sitting from/ Three/to Ten Seconds, obtaining all the advantages of Oiland Miniature Painting./with the never failing likeness of Photography.PHOTOGRAPHY.- We have recently had the opportunity of inspecting some verybeautiful specimens in this branch of art issuing from the studio atMr./Pouncy, our trainsmen. This art, which is destined from allappearances to revolutionize all our preconceived ideas as to the elaborateand tedious process of portrait painting, and in fact, to entirely supersedeit, has found in him a careful and intelligent exponent.--
Waterson; England; United Kingdom;
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