Artist: Henry Peach Robinson
Date: 1858
Size: 24 x 18 cm
Museum: George Eastman Museum (Rochester, United States)
Technique: Photograph
Henry Peach Robinson became interested in photography after visiting the Great Exhibition of 1851. Trained in the fine arts, he exhibited an oil painting at the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1852. He continued painting while experimenting with the daguerreotype and calotype processes in the early 1850s. After a visit from Dr. Hugh Diamond in 1854, Robinson decided to adopt photography as his profession. He opened a studio in 1857 and was elected to the Photographic Society of London. The following year he created his elaborate combination print
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