William Russell Sedgfield
1826 - 1902
William Russell Sedgfield British, 1826-1902
William Sedgfield, one of the earliest applicants for a license to use William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process, is better known for his later albumen work of British architecture, topography, and genre subjects, done in print, stereograph, and carte-de-visite formats. He was active from 184-72. Two known projects are Photographic Delineations of the Scenery, Architecture and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland and his contributions, along with other British photographers, to William and Mary Howitt's Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. T.W.F.
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