Back to Life 2
by Nigel Radcliffe
Title
Back to Life 2
Artist
Nigel Radcliffe
Medium
Mixed Media - Tinted Photograph
Description
This old family photograph from 1878 was in poor condition so I have tidied it up and also added a little colour in the principle of tinting as was popular from the early days of photography but in this case in a slightly more modern take, in order to enliven it experimentally to a mild degree.
It is a family heirloom and shows my wife's grandfather, Algernon Paget, as a baby in the 'perambulator' - which could be mistaken for a wheelbarrow - along with his siblings.His mother, Gertrude nee Villiers, was the daughter of a Bishop of Durham: he did not achieve any particular fame as he died two years into the job.
The original photograph is an ambrotype (on glass) as opposed to a daguerreotype (on silver and copper).
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April 26th, 2015
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