Richmond, Yorkshire

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Richmond, Yorkshire

Artist Francis Frith (British, 1822-1898)

Dateabout 1870s

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (15.8 x 21 cm);
Mount: 11 5/8 x 14 11/16 in. (29.5 x 37.4 cm)

MediumAlbumen print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond

Object number

1990.70

Not on View

Label TextFrancis Frith was a pioneer in the history of photography. He was one of the three founders of the Liverpool Photographic Society in March 1853. They considered themselves ‘professional’ photographers rather than ‘gentleman practitioners’. Frith employed large cameras and heavy glass negative plates to produce albumen silver prints of dramatic landscapes using the wet colloid method. This process required rapid development before the light-sensitive chemicals used to coat the glass plates dried. Therefore Frith and other early photographers had to take their equipment, chemicals, and darkroom with them wherever they photographed.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.