£75
Local Interest - Photography - a 19th century photographer's shop display sign, applied with an albumen print of the Peacock Hotel, Rowsley, and inscribed Richard Keene's Derbyshire Views Sold Here, 29cm x 34.5cm Undoubtedly from Keene's shop at 24, Iron Gate Derby. Richard Keene (1825-1894) was a pioneer Victorian photographer who learnt his 'art-science' as he called it from Revd Edward Abney a local priest and close collaborator of W H Fox Talbot, who was married to Abney's cousin Constance Mundy. Keene was a very accomplished topographical photographer whose first datable image was taken in autumn 1853.
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