1863 JOURNAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY:
“THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL” Vol. VIII [1862-1864]

 

NOTES: 

   --Italics have been retained from publications, which uses them for both titles as well as emphasis.  To more easily locate image titles  have also been italicized, whether or not they have been rendered in capitals or quotes in the original.  Italics have NOT, however, been used when only the general subject of an image is mentioned.

   --Image numbers listed in articles can be either an entry number in an exhibition, or the photographer’s own image number as found on labels.  It is reasonably safe to assume that when a photographer’s works are being reviewed and numbers noted, they refer to the image whereas numbers referenced to given works in an exhibition, are exhibition entry numbers and are not the photographer’s.

    --All photographer’s names have been bolded for easy location.  Numbers frequently refer to the photographer’s image number, but can also refer to a number in a catalog for a show.  Decide whether to bold or not if can tell.

   --It is not always possible in lists of photographers to know when two separate photographers are partners or not, e.g., in a list, “Smith and Jones” sometimes alludes to two separate photographers and sometimes to one photographic company.  Both names will be highlighted and indexed but a partnership may be wrongly assumed.  Any information to the contrary would be appreciated.

   --  Brackets [ ] are used to indicate supplied comments by the transcriber;  parenthesis

(  )  are used in the original sources.  If the original source has used brackets, they have been transcribed as parenthesis to avoid confusion.

   --Articles by photographers about technical matters – only name and titles have been listed.  IF AT ALL.  If other names are associated with the paper they are listed as well.

  --Meetings of Societies – Names of officers, members attending or referenced, dates and locations of meetings have been given.  If the reports are very short or discuss photographs, then the articles have been copied; if administrative or technical in nature, they have not.

  -- Some journals, e.g., The Art-Journal, cover both photographer and painting/drawing.  As they frequently refer to the production of both the photographer and the painter as “pictures” it is not always possible to tell when photography is indicated.  If there is doubt, it will be included but a note will be added stating that the names listed may in fact not be photographers.

   --Mostly articles totally discussing technical aspects of photography, products, etc. are not transcribed unless they are part of a larger article covering photographs.   When technical descriptions are too lengthy to transcribe that is noted.

 

1863:  JPS Aug. 15, vol. VIII, #136, p. 337-338:

            Photographs of Strawberry Hill, by Professor Delamotte (Cundall and Downes)

            The above series of twelve views are sold by Messrs. Cundall and Downes, by permission of Frances, Countess of Waldegrave, in aid of the fund for enlargement of the Holy Trinity Church, Twickenham.  Strawberry Hill, formerly the seat of Horace Walpole, and for many years so celebrated for the wonderful collection of objects of art, pictures, miniatures, prints, &c., formed by its then illustrious owner, has been enlarged and readorned by the present benevolent and wealthy possessor.  Many of our readers will remember the dispersion, by the late George Robins, of the entire Strawberry Hill collections, after which period the residence was sadly neglected, and became scarcely habitable.  Mr. Delamotte’s pictures not only exhibit the exterior and interior views of the building, but several are so admirably executed, that it is possible to distinguish the likenesses in the pictures adorning the drawing-rooms and galleries.  The view looking up the Thames from the garden is one of the most exquisitely treated photographs that we have ever seen.  It is pleasing to again behold Mr. Delamotte’s artistic skill in the judicious selection of the spots for illustration.  His small view of Kenilworth Castle, done some ten years since, and as perfect now as the day in which it was printed, we have always prized as illustrating how much photography, to be successful, just be practiced by those who know what is agreeable to be reproduced.  We feel confident that the series of views of Strawberry Hill will be valued by the public in general, as well as by students in the art.