Image / Staff photographing Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy, in the Huntington residence

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Title: Staff photographing Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy, in the Huntington residence
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Huntington History
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A series of three photographs of the photographing of Thomas Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). The man on the ground on the left holds steady the ladder that the photographer is on, another man stands on the right, and Dr. Batrig stands on a platform helping the photographer. Labels accompanying photographs in album read "Apparatus for making exposures for color plates of paintings in New Gallery. Huntington Art Gallery."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: photCL 107 vol13 (26)
19073
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll8/id/18
Subject: Photography of art
Huntington Residence. Portrait gallery
Source: photCL 107 - Henry E. Huntington Estate, San Marino, California
Huntington History, Huntington Digital Library

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