Autograph Collection.- British Artists Letters to photographer Hugh Owen

Interesting group of letters addressed to pioneer photographer Hugh Owen from various 19th century artists, including: Joseph John Jenkins (describing his poor physical conditions due to the weather, 26 February 1880); Edward Angelo Goodall (discussing a painting he did for Owen's collection "the subject is the south porch of the cathedral at Chartres", n.d.); George Landseer (thanking Owen "for your very splendid parcel of collotypes. I think they very beautiful and some of the best I have ever seen. I suppose those done in the Vale of Neath are your latest endeavours", 20 November n.y.); John Middleton (asking Owen to confirm receipt of his picture, 1 June n.y.); James Duffield Harding (requesting Owen to return one of his pictures to aid him in painting the foliage, 4 January 1859); William Collingwood Smith (noting receipt of drawings and looking forward to the Collotypes, 2 March 1883); William S. P. Henderson (saying he has asked Mr Rowland to forward a picture to Owen, 30 November 1853); Edward Villiers Rippingille (letter expressing his appreciation for Owen's Collotypes displayed at the Grand Exhibition, mentioning his plan "to go at the beginning of the winter to Greece and Egypt" and discussing about practical matters of photography and printing images on paper and glass, 14 August n.y [1851]); David Hall McKewan (thanking Owen for sending 31 pictures, one of which he will return upon completion of some drawings for Owen, 9 February 1853); and others; v.s. (11)

***Owen's calotypes were exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. His images so impressed the Commissioners that, along with his French contemporary Claude-Marie Ferrier, he was asked to make 155 photographs of the exhibits. More than 140 bound sets of reports and accompanying photographs known as the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided were presented to, among others, Queen Victoria, Heads of Foreign Governments, the Exhibition commissioners, and the British Museum.

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