A photomechanical reproduction of an autochrome colour photograph entitled 'Colonel Rhodes' Lodge at Sonning', taken by an unknown photographer and published by the Polytechnic School of Photography and Typography, c. 1910. Two young girls stand outside the house in summer bonnets and white smocks.
Two young girls stand outside the house in summer bonnets and white smocks.
The autochrome process was the first really practicable and commercially successful process for colour photography. Autochromes are transparent images on glass similar to lantern slides. This image is an early attempt to reproduce an Autochrome on paper.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/6071/25
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photograph, colour photograph and chromolithograph
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
