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Woman Admiring a Print

Photograph
ca. 1910 (made)
Artist/Maker
Eva Watson-Schutze (photographer)
Place of origin
America (made)

The image shows a woman in full length, wearing a long dress and standing at a table in profile against a blank pale wall, holding the edges of a print which is resting on the table. Bright light from a window in the top left of the photograph lights the front of the woman and the tabletop.


Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleWoman Admiring a Print (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Bromoil printing
Paper
Bromoil
Brief description
Bromoil photograph entitled 'Woman Admiring a Print' by Eva Watson-Schutze. America, ca.1910.
Physical description
The image shows a woman in full length, wearing a long dress and standing at a table in profile against a blank pale wall, holding the edges of a print which is resting on the table. Bright light from a window in the top left of the photograph lights the front of the woman and the tabletop.
Dimensions
  • Height: 203mm
  • Width: 156mm
Dimensions taken from Brian Coe & Mark Haworth-Booth, A Guide to Early Photographic Printing Processes. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983.
Gallery label
  • This is an example of the bromoil process invented around 1907, in which a bleached image is re-developed with pigment applied with brushes. ‘Pictorialist’ photographers favoured its broad tonal effects and diffuse detail. The print being ‘admired’ in the image is likely to have been a finely crafted photograph much like this one. (10/2012)
  • Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013, label texts : Eva Watson-Schütze (1867 – 1935) Woman Admiring a Print About 1910 This is an example of the bromoil process invented around 1907, in which a bleached image is re-developed with pigment applied with brushes. ‘Pictorialist’ photographers favoured its broad tonal effects and diffuse detail. The print being ‘admired’ in the image is likely to have been a finely crafted photograph much like this one. Bromoil print Museum no. Ph.380-1982 (11 03 2014)
Subjects depicted
Woman
Table
Bibliographic reference
Coe, Brian & Haworth-Booth, Mark. A Guide to Early Photographic Printing Processes. London: The Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.380-1982

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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