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Description: | The Photographic Collection consists of over 220,000 original images, 130,000 are original negatives ranging from 1840s to present. Significant photographs are 3 large format volumes of calotypes (salt prints) made by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson between 1843-1847; The Thomas Carlyle Album and a small collection of Daguerreotypes including images of Robert Stephenson, Sir Charles Wheatstone and his family by Antoine Claudet, Sir George Scharf in 1847 by Kilburn and Jenny Lind; Roger Fenton's Historical Portraits in the Crimea ; album of over 200 prints by Herbert Watkins also from the 1850s; 100 prints by Julia Margaret Cameron from the 1860s and 1870s, works by Lewis Carroll including The Christ Church Album (P7) and the 12 volumes of Camille Silvy's Daybooks of over 15,000 studies of figures in society and visitors to London; studio negatives of over 40,000 by Bassano, 8,000 by Howard Coster and similar quantities by the Baron Studios (1954-1973), Elliott and Fry (1943-1961), Lafayette (1926-1934) and Vandyk (1900s to1940s).; National Portrait Gallery | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | St Martin's Place
London London United Kingdom,
WC2H 0HE | FAX: | 020 7306 0056 | Telephone: | 020 7306 0055 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5928 | Go to resource |
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