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These photographs reduce the scale of the original painted silhouettes and conveniently gather them together in a kind of family album. Both silhouettes and photography shared the desire to capture the likeness of an individual through light and shade. \r\n\r\nAlbumen prints\r\nMuseum nos. E.9:2 & 3-2009","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"<b>Cameraless Photography\n</b>\nE. & J. Baldwin Photographic Portrait Studio (fl.1880s)\r\nSilhouettes from album<i> Hurstbourne in the Forties </i>\r\nSilhouettes 1840s; photographs c.1880\r\nAlbumen prints\r\n20.5 x 16.5 cm each\r\nMuseum nos. E.9, 2, 3, 9, 14-2009\r\n\r\nThese photographs were collected in an album inscribed: ‘The originals of these (life size) were done by outlining the shadows on a wall and then filled in with black – they were in my possession.’ Probably owned by a member of the Fellowes family, the photographs record the proto-photographic silhouettes and represent an intersection of two closely related methods of portraiture. ","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.9:9-2009"],"accessionNumberNum":"9","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2009,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-11","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-08","availableToBook":false}}