Ambrotype

Description

1/6 plate ambrotype, depicting a woman, sitting, with half the black backing paper removed to demonstrate the effect of a dark background under the bleached negative, half of case missing, unsigned

Museum reference

T.2023.44.1.13

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Ambrotype

Production information

Unknown

Materials

Glass, Collodion, iodised, Silver nitrate

Physical description

1/6 plate tinted ambrotype, half of case missing

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.