Ambrotype

Description

1/4 plate tinted ambrotype, depicting a woman holding a chair, by Negretti & Zambra, Hatton Garden, London, 1850s

Museum reference

T.2023.44.1.5

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Ambrotype

Production information

Negretti & Zambra, Maker
Hatton Garden, London, England, Northern Europe

Date

1850s

Materials

Glass, Collodion, iodised, Silver nitrate

Physical description

1/4 plate tinted 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.