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Description: | A photograph of a narrow alley beside the church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield, London, taken by Alfred and John Bool (active 1870s), in 1877. Built in 1123, the church of St Bartholomew the Great is one of the oldest places of worship in London. After the Reformation the building fell into ruin before being restored in the nineteenth century. Many of London's historic buildings were lost in the Victorian period as the city expanded and modernised. Between 1875 and 1882 a concerned amateur society, The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, commissioned a systematic photographic record of threatened buildings in an effort to save them. The Bool brothers were portrait painters who took up photography in the early 1870s. In the late 1870s, Henry Dixon (1820-1893) was also employed by the Society to photograph historic buildings threatened with demolition. He printed both his photographs and those taken earlier by the Bool brothers as permanent carbon prints. These were issued to subscribers together with printed notes on the histories of the buildings depicted. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | carbon print photograph | Temporal: | 1877 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Bool, John (1850-1933) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/16495 | Go to resource |
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