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Description: | A collodion positive (ambrotype) portrait of Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857), taken by an unknown photographer in about 1855. An English sculptor and photographer, Archer invented the wet collodion process for producing glass negatives in 1851. He published his process freely and derived no personal benefit from it. He died penniless in 1857. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph ambrotype (process) | Temporal: | c. 1855 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Unknown photographer | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20900 | Go to resource |
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