[Opalotype double portrait]
Maker and role
Unknown, Photographer
Production date
Circa 1860s-Circa 1940s
Object detail
Accession number
PHO-2023-5
Maker
Description
Opalotype of a double portrait of an unknown woman and child looking out at the viewer.
The woman is wearing a dark coloured dress with three pins on shoulder. Boy is wearing a white shirt and bow tie with black jacket.
Opalotype is a photographic positive a photographic positive created by transferring a carbon print onto the glass or by exposing a light-sensitive emulsion on the opal glass to a negative.
The woman is wearing a dark coloured dress with three pins on shoulder. Boy is wearing a white shirt and bow tie with black jacket.
Opalotype is a photographic positive a photographic positive created by transferring a carbon print onto the glass or by exposing a light-sensitive emulsion on the opal glass to a negative.
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 photographic positive : black and white ; 30 x 37.5 cm
Record level
Item
Credit Line
Unknown. Circa 1860s-Circa 1940s. [Opalotype double portrait], PHO-2023-5. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Production place
Place of production not identified
Current rights
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