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Mounted photogravure of earlier calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, printed ca. 1900. Portrait of Miss Mary McCandlish.

Miss Mary McCandlish

Photographs

ca. 1845

Silver gelatin print by Mary Cooper, titled "Ray". Dated ca. 1987, the image shows photographer Raymond Moore (Cooper's husband), possibly on his death bed.

"Ray"

Photographs

ca. 1987

Photogravure of photograph by George Davison, titled "The Long Arm". Inscribed in blue ink on front bottom-right corner.

The Long Arm

Photographs

1900-1902

Portfolio of 13 hand-pulled photogravures printed in 1982 from Charles Negre original steel plates, by the Atelier de Saint Prex, Geneva, Switzerland. Blind stamped, limited edition

Portfolio of 13 hand-pulled photogravures printed in 1982

Photographs

1982

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer, titled "Partie aus Puchberg", ca. 1890s. Published by J. Blechinger, Wien. Image shows a smartly-dressed man walking in nature near the town of Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria

Partie aus Puchberg

Photographs

ca. 1890s

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer, titled "In Ostende", ca. 1900s. Published by J. Blechinger, Wien. Image shows Edwardian beachgoers in Ostend, Belgium.

In Ostende

Photographs

ca. 1900

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of English novelist George Moore, 1908.

George Moore

Photographs

1908

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, titled "Moonlight", ca. 1907. Published in "The Door in the Wall and Other Stories" (London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1915), plate 31.

Moonlight

Photographs

ca. 1907

Photogravure by Alfred Clements, titled "Eastward at Sundown". Dated late 19th century. Published by E.C. Meinecke, New York. Photographer's name and title printed in bottom-right corner.

Eastward at Sundown

Photographs

Late-19th century

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. The Rotterdam Canal, ca. 1908.

Canal, Rotterdam

Photographs

ca. 1908

Photogravure entitled 'The Onion Field' by George Davison, 1890. It was taken using a pinhole camera and when first shown in the Photographic Society of Great Britain exhibition, 1890, it was entitled, 'The Old Farmstead'.

The Onion Field

Photographs

1890

Photogravure "An Arab Merchant", 1925 by Craig Annan.

An Arab Merchant

Photographs

1925

Silver gelatin photograph by Christof Croeber, ca. 1903s. Portrait of a man (self-portrait?) posing with a Super Ikonta camera. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Self-portrait No. 2

Photographs

ca. 1930s

Silver gelatin photograph by Christof Croeber, ca. 1903s. Portrait of a man (self-portrait?) posing with a Super Ikonta camera. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Self-portrait No. 3

Photographs

ca. 1930s

Photogravure print by Alvin langdon Coburn, showing the Singer Building in New York City, 1910. Published in "Alvin Langdon Coburn's New York" (New York: Duckworth & Co, 1910), plate 10.

Singer Building, New York

Photographs

1910

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, titled "The Waterfront", ca. 1910. Published in "New York" (London & New York: Duckworth & Co, 1910), plate XVIII

5th Ave. from the St. Regis

Photographs

ca. 1910

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, dated 1918, in paper mount. Portrait of fellow photographer George Davison (1854-1930). "The Seasons Greetings from G.D. Xmas 1918" inscribed on bottom front of mount in pencil.

George Davison

Photographs

1918

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of English playwright George Bernard Shaw, taken ca. 1908.

George Bernard Shaw

Photographs

ca. 1908

Photogravure print by Alvin langdon Coburn, titled "The Tower Bridge", ca. 1906. Plate VIII from "London", published in 1909.

The Tower Bridge

Photographs

1906

Photogravure picture postcard, mounted on card, by Victor Angerer, titled "Landschaftsstudie aus den Wildparke zu Lundenburg", 1888. Published by J. Blechinger.

Landschaftsstudie aus den Wildparke zu Lundenburg

Photographs

1888

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer titled "Studie als Frain (bei Znaim in Mähren)", 1892. Image shows a woman carrying a bundle of sticks on her back. She and a seated man are pictured on a dirt road near Znojmo in the South Moravia region of the Czech Republic. Published by J. Blechinger, Vienna.

Studie als Frain (bei Znaim in Mähren)

Photographs

1892

Album, ''Lord Tennyson and his Friends'. A series of 25 portraits and frontispiece in Photogravure by W A Smith, from the negatives of Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron & Henry Herschel Hay Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie with introduction by HHH Cameron'. (Number 330 of a limited edition of 400), 1893, published by T. Fisher Unwin.

Album, 'Lord Tennyson and his Friends', 1893

Photographs

1893

Four issues of 'Sun Artists', No.1, October 1889, containing four photogravure reproductions of photographs by Colonel Jospeh Gale.

Four issues of "Sun Artists", no

Photographs

1889

Photogravure by George Davison, 1899, entitled 'Reflections, Weston on the Green'.

Reflections, Weston on the Green

Photographic Technology

1899

Photogravure entitled 'Joan Jones with baby Doreen' by George Davison, 1921. Davison sent this contemporary nativity scene as a Christmas greeting in December 1921.

Joan Jones with baby Doreen

Photographs

1921

6 Illustrations of Eckstein's photogravures. Four of these are in gilt frames.

6 Illustrations of Eckstein's photogravures

Photographs

Portfolio of 119 (from 120) gravures, issued in ten parts entitled `Az Erdekes Ujsaj, Haborus Albuma'. Published in Budapest, Hungary, 1918-30

Az Erdekes Ujsaj, Haborus Albuma

Photographs

1918-1930

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of English poet John Masefield, dated 1913. Published in Coburn's "Men of Mark" folio (London: Duckworth & Co; New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913), plate XXIX

John Masefield

Photographs

1913

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of Anglo-Welsh artist Sir Frank Brangwyn, dated 1904.

Sir Frank Brangwyn

Photographs

1904

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of and unknown man wearing military-style uniform.

Unknown Man

Photographs

ca. 1845

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of Jimmy Miller, son of professor James Miller, in Highland dress.

Jimmy Miller, Highland Boy

Photographs

ca. 1845

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, titled "The Unfinished Bridge". Plate 15 in Coburn's "New York" (NY: Duckworth & Co, 1910).

The Unfinished Bridge

Photographs

ca. 1908

Photogravure picture postcard by Victor Angerer, titled "Strand in Ostende", 1900. Published by Blechinger & Leykauf, hel. & imp. Image of the beach in Ostend, Belgium. Glued to cardboard.

Strand in Ostende

Photographs

1900

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer, titled "Die Fleissigste is doch die Mirzl", ca. 1890s. Published by J. Blechinger, Wien. Image shows a man and four small children sitting outside the entrance to a stone house. All are dressed in traditional Austrian outfits.

"Die Fleissigste is doch die Mirzl"

Photographs

ca. 1890s

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer. Full-length portrait of a woman in fancy dress, dated . Published by F. Kargl, Vienna.

Portrait of a woman in fancy dress

Photographs

1885

Large photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, titled "St Paul's from Ludgate Circus", dated ca. 1909. Published in Coburn's "London" folio (London and New York: Duckworth and Brentano’s, 1909), pate VX.

St Paul's from Ludgate Circus

Photographs

ca. 1909

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of critic and painter Roger Fry (1866-1934), dated 1913.

Roger Fry

Photographs

1913

Sample leaflet (describing event at the Science Museum) produced as demonstration of photogravure printing, Produced using photogravure cylinder (1935-567/1), 1985-1935.

Leaflet Printed Using a Photogravure Printing Cylinder, 1895-1935

Printing & Writing

1895-1935

Photogravure entitled 'The Steerage', by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907. Print made 1915.

The Steerage

Photographs

1907 (1915)

Souvenir brochure for D W Griffith's film Birth of a Nation (1915), American version. With tipped in gravure portrait of Griffith and scenes from the film.

Souvenir brochure for D W Griffith's film Birth of a Nation

Cinematography

Photogravure in vintage mount by George Davison. Image shows Lake Maggiore, Piedmont and Lombardy, Italy.

Lake Maggiore

Photographs

ca. 1900

Photogravure entitled 'Frühlingsangfang' ('Early Spring'), photographed by Alexander Keighley about 1899.

Frühlingsangfang

Photographs

c 1899

(a) Three illustrations of photogravures, Eckstein's process. (b) A book illustrating the Eckstein's process.

Book and Three illustrations of photogravures

Photographs

Mounted calotype print by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of Miss Binney (later Mrs James Webster).

Miss Binney

Photographs

ca. 1845

Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Portrait of English author John Galsworthy (1876-1933), dated 1909.

John Galsworthy

Photographs

1909

Photogravure by James Craig Annan, titled "The Road Through the Dunes". Published in "Die Kunst der Photographie, 1900" by Martin Oldenbourg, Berlin. Printed by Georg Buxenstein & Company, Berlin.

The Road Through the Dunes

Photographs

1900

Photogravure picture postcard mounted on card, by Victor Angerer titled "Kanzel in der Stephanskirche", 1911.

Kanzel in der Stephanskirche

Photographs

1911

'Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow' a series of engravings by Thomas Annan from photographs taken for the City of Glasgow Improvement Trust. 50 photogravure plates, rebacked with original boards, red cloth, gilt city arms on upper cover, folio, James Maclehose and Sons, 1900.

Series of engravings 'Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow', by Thomas Annan

Photographs

1900

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Lake Maggiore

NSMM

ca. 1900

Photogravure in vintage mount by George Davison, titled "Bridgnorth".

Bridgnorth

Photographs

ca. 1900