Call Number:

PH-01029

Collection Name:

Chrysotype Portfolio

Creator:

No. of Items:

9 items

Span Dates:

1981

Description:

Unique edition portfolio, entitled Chrysotype Portfolio, by William Russell Young, containing 3 cyanotypes and 6 chrysotypes. The album “was constructed to display and protect a series of experiments in photographic processes invented by Sir John F. W. Herschel...All images are printed in both cyanotype and chrysotype versions so that scholars may compare the lesser known chrysotype to its better known cousin the cyanotype.” Print information follows.

982:0069:0001 -- Step Wedges;
982:0069:0002 -- Texas Bayou;
982:0069:0003 -- Texas Bayou;
982:0069:0004 -- Church Door;
982:0069:0005 -- Church Door;
982:0069:0006 -- Church Door;
982:0069:0007 -- La Manta;
982:0069:0008 -- La Manta;
982:0069:0009 -- La Manta.

Location(s):

Young, W.R., Box 3 (982:0069:0001-0009)
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See Also:

The Kallitype: both Historical and Modern Formulae (985:0034:0001-0018) 6G:LP:Young, William Russell Box 2

Postcards/Greeting Cards from Various Photographers (Discrete Collection 144) (986:0007:0023) 6G:DIS:144

William Russell Young (983:0002:0001-0015) 6G:LP:Y-Z Box, Small ; (984:0057:0001 ; 985:0035:0001 ; 988:0104:0001 ; 998:0010:0001-0006) 6G:LP:V-Z Box, Mini