Ambrotype

Description

1/6 plate ambrotype, depicting an outdoors group portrait of a woman and five children, and a nursemaid and groomsman, posed around a horse-drawn vehicle, unsigned, 1857

Museum reference

T.2023.44.1.10

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Ambrotype

Production information

Unknown

Date

1857

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.