"Photo-Classics 1; Victorian Photography" from the Gernsheim Collection, a limited edition set of 10 reproduction photographic prints
Helmut Gernsheim (1913-1995)
Category
Photographs
Date
1970
Materials
Silver gelatin, Silver bromide, Paper, Card
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522861
Summary
Photo-Classics 1, Victorian Photography: Set of 10 limited edition (24/100) large (50 x 40 cm) mounted reproduction photographic prints from the Victorian period. With large accompanying 8pp booklet (50 x 40 cm) cataloguing the images and containing biographical details of the featured photographers. Produced by the Gersheim Collection, University of Texas and Photographic Editions Ltd, London. W H Fox Talbot: The Chess Players (1842/3) David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson: The Birdcage (1843-5) Alois Locherer: Transport of the "Bavaria" (1850) Roger Fenton: Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars (1855) Robert Howlett: I K Brunel (1857) Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Milkmaid (1857) Etienne Carjat: Gioacchino Rossini (1860) Julia Margaret Cameron: Sir John Herschel (1867) John Thomson: Poor Woman (1876) Paul Martin: Newspaper vendor (1892-3)
Makers and roles
Helmut Gernsheim (1913-1995), publisher