Ambrotype

Description

1/8 plate ambrotype photograph, depicting two women in servant aprons behind railings, framed, by an itinerant photographer, unsigned, 1850s - 1860s

Museum reference

T.2023.44.1.92

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Ambrotype

Date

1850s - 1860s

Materials

Glass, Collodion, iodised, Silver nitrate, Metal

Physical description

1/8 plate ambrotype

Associations

Howarth-Loomes Collection

Exhibitions

• Photography: A Victorian Sensation (19 Jun 2015 - 22 Nov 2015)
  National Museum of Scotland

Credit

The Bernard Howarth-Loomes Collection. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government from the estate of Ethel Alma Howarth-Loomes and allocated to National Museums Scotland, 2023.