Nest of song thrush (in situ)
Photograph
1904
1904
| Artist/Maker |
A glass colour slide slide made by Oliver G. Pike. The caption reads, 'Nest of a song thrush (in situ), Sanger-Shepher process, Oliver Pike, 1904' and it is inscribed in pencil on a white label on the right side of the image border. In the image there is a nest with four bird eggs in a tree with bright green leaves and pink flowers.
Object details
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| Title | Nest of song thrush (in situ) (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | It involved exposing three sensitised pieces of celluloid, called matrices, through different coloured filters to create gelatine reliefs. Each relief was then stained in carefully calculated solutions of yellow, cyan and pink dyes. The coloured reliefs would then be rolled individually onto a separate substrate in perfect registration to create an image. But because the dyes tended to wander, developers seldom printed the images onto paper. Instead, they chose to create transparencies by overlaying the matrices and placing them between glass. |
| Brief description | Sanger-Shepherd colour slide made by Oliver G. Pike, 'Nest of a song thrush (in situ)', 1904 |
| Physical description | A glass colour slide slide made by Oliver G. Pike. The caption reads, 'Nest of a song thrush (in situ), Sanger-Shepher process, Oliver Pike, 1904' and it is inscribed in pencil on a white label on the right side of the image border. In the image there is a nest with four bird eggs in a tree with bright green leaves and pink flowers. |
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| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund |
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| Accession number | RPS.805-2019 |
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| Record created | May 16, 2019 |
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