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When the Day's Work is Done

Photograph
1877 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

This photograph is a 'combination print' made from six different negatives. The line between the light-coloured wall behind the woman and the dark shadows of the room, a stage set built for the photograph, reveals one of the seams between negatives.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleWhen the Day's Work is Done (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print from six separate wet collodion glass negatives
Brief description
Photograph, Henry Peach Robinson, 'When the Day's Work is Done', albumen print, 1877
Physical description
A mounted, sepia-coloured photograph of a man and a woman seated at a table in a rustic interior. The man is reading a large book.
Style
Gallery label
(10/2012)
This photograph is a ‘combination print’ made from six different negatives. The line between the light-coloured wall behind the woman and the dark shadows of the room, a stage set built for the photograph, reveals one of the seams between negatives.
(1 03 2014)
Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013, label texts :

Henry Peach Robinson (1830 – 1901)
‘When the Day’s Work is Done’
1877

This photograph is a ‘combination print’ made
from six different negatives. The line between
the light-coloured wall behind the woman and
the dark shadows of the room (a stage set built
for the photograph) reveals one of the seams
between negatives.


Albumen print
Museum no. Ph.723-1939
Subjects depicted
Summary
This photograph is a 'combination print' made from six different negatives. The line between the light-coloured wall behind the woman and the dark shadows of the room, a stage set built for the photograph, reveals one of the seams between negatives.
Collection
Accession number
723-1939

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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