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A framed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive) photograph.
A framed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive) photograph.
Administrative / biographical background
The ambrotype is a photographic process on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process, it was introduced in the early 1850s. The ambrotype quickly grew in popularity because it maintained the image clarity of the daguerreotype but was faster and cheaper to produce.
Administrative / biographical background
The ambrotype is a photographic process on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process, it was introduced in the early 1850s. The ambrotype quickly grew in popularity because it maintained the image clarity of the daguerreotype but was faster and cheaper to produce.
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Record Details
| Item reference: | PAR/249/5 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Creator: | Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet of Shenstone |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Daguerreotype of Sir William Parker, 1st Bt.. Admiral Of The Fleet, 178l-1866 (Daguerreotype) (PAR/249/1)
- A framed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive) photograph of a woman. The ambrotype is broken into three pieces. (Ambrotype) (PAR/249/2)
- A framed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive) photograph of a woman. (Ambrotype) (PAR/249/3)
- Daguerreotype of a woman. (Daguerreotype) (PAR/249/4)
- A framed ambrotype (also known as wet collodion positive) photograph. (Ambrotype) (PAR/249/5)
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