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Study of the Head of John the Baptist in a Charger
Creator
Oscar Gustave RejlanderBritish Photographer · 1813–1875
All works by this person →Seeing the fold of a coat sleeve in a photographic portrait prompted Oscar Gustave Rejlander to give up painting for photography. In 1853 Rejlander, eager to learn the wet-collodion process of photography in just one day, paid a hurried visit to a photographer's studio in London. As implied in the name, the wet-plate glass negative had to be used while the collodion was still damp, and the process
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- negative about 1855; print later
- Medium
- Carbon print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4ee72960-d830-4a22-a7ac-a299c0a524b7
Study of a man's head in a basket, draped in fabric. The man has curly dark hair and a full beard with mustache.
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