Ambrotype

Description

1/6 plate ambrotype, depicting two boys, identified on the outside of the surrounding case as George and Frederick Ripley, unsigned, early 1850s

Museum reference

T.2023.44.1.4

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Ambrotype

Production information

Unknown

Date

Early 1850s

Materials

Glass, Collodion, iodised, Silver nitrate

Physical description

1/6 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.