Photograph album
Maker & role
Unknown, Photographer
Production date
circa 1900
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Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 34 x W: 24cm (H: 340 x W: 240mm)
Subject Place
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Gift, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, 1987
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Album of 32 medium size Photochrom Zurich photographs of European sites.
Description
A series of 32 mechanically coloured photographs of European cities, monuments and buildings, pasted into an album kept by members of the Rouse family as a souvenir of European travels. From 1867 onwards, successive generations of the Rouse family toured the great cultural sites of Europe, collecting souvenirs and mementos of their travels.
This view of the Milanese cathedral is part of a series of 32 mechanically coloured photographs of European cities, monuments and buildings, pasted into an album kept by members of the Rouse family as a souvenir of European travels. From 1867 onwards, successive generations of the Rouse family toured the great cultural sites of Europe, collecting souvenirs and mementos of their travels.
The colouring process, indicated by the letters P Z on the print, was called Photochrom Zurich. It was developed by the Swiss printing company Orell Fussli in the 1880s. Faster than traditional hand colouring, this technique allowed mass production mechanical colouring of black and white photographic prints by lithography. Each colour was applied separately with a dedicated printing stone and the prints were varnished to saturate colours and protect the surface. The resulting vibrantly coloured images contrast dramatically with the sepia photographs available to earlier generations of traveller.
This view of the Milanese cathedral is part of a series of 32 mechanically coloured photographs of European cities, monuments and buildings, pasted into an album kept by members of the Rouse family as a souvenir of European travels. From 1867 onwards, successive generations of the Rouse family toured the great cultural sites of Europe, collecting souvenirs and mementos of their travels.
The colouring process, indicated by the letters P Z on the print, was called Photochrom Zurich. It was developed by the Swiss printing company Orell Fussli in the 1880s. Faster than traditional hand colouring, this technique allowed mass production mechanical colouring of black and white photographic prints by lithography. Each colour was applied separately with a dedicated printing stone and the prints were varnished to saturate colours and protect the surface. The resulting vibrantly coloured images contrast dramatically with the sepia photographs available to earlier generations of traveller.
Accession number
R97/112
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