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Aqua Fresca, by J.O. Philip
Creator
Robert HowlettBritish Photographer · 1831–1858
All works by this person →Robert Howlett was one of the first photographers to earn a successful living from this new medium. Until the 1850s virtually all photographers were amateurs who arrived at the infant art form either from the sciences or painting. Howlett associated with amateur practitioners through exhibitions of his photographs and in 1856 began to exhibit his work at the Photographic Society in London. Howlett
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- 1858
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Photograph of a painting depicting a man drinking from a clay jug, similar in design with the Spanish botijo. A woman stands in front of him, holding on to the rope of a water well's pulley.
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