Rare! CIVIL War Era Woman 1/6 Plate Pannotype Photograph 1860

  

CIVIL WAR ERA WOMAN 1/6 PLATE PANNOTYPE PHOTOGRAPH 1860. Pannotype Photograph - a photograph made by wet collodion process on a black-waxed textile support - was introduced by the firm Wülff & Co. The Pannotype is an extremely rare example of an early photographic process.

It was only produced for a very short time between 1853 and 1860. The underexposed collodion negative print was detached from the original glass base and then transferred to black oil cloth, leather or even wood. The big advantage was an unbreakable picture. Unfortunately the picture base weakened rapidly, the emulsion cracked and the pictures deteriorated very quickly. Only few pannotypes have survived until today.

Ambrotypes are glass negatives placed over a dark background in order to reverse the image, whereas pannotypes are made by applying a collodion emulsion on a dark surface such as leather or waxed textile, resulting in a positive image. DIMENSIONS: 2 1/2" x 3 1/8". SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST. THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY.