Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9354
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Two specimens of fern leaf
Date
ca. 1840s
Creator
Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 - 1842, British) , Geologist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 100mm
width (print): 109mm
width (print): 109mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: "An early attempt at Photography from Norwich." Contact print on sensitized paper.
Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800-1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790-1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816-c.1859.
Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800-1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790-1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816-c.1859.
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