€200 - €400
Star Lot: A fabulous antique original autotype photograph of a painting originally by Sir Joshua Reynolds titled "Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley) as St. Cecilia" painted in 1775. Housed in a high quality antique wooden frame with gilt edges. Original Autotype Company sticker to verso along with indistinct pencil inscription.
The Autotype Company was formed in 1876 when an already successful photographer, John Robert Mather Sawyer, with his partners Messrs. Bird and Spencer, purchased the assets of the Autotype Fine Art Co. Ltd. Autotype Fine Art had itself been a successor to the Autotype Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., which in 1868 had acquired the rights to Joseph Swan's invention of the carbon photographic process (British patent 503/1864). The new Autotype company of 1876 continued to exploit these rights by photographing works of art, by providing a processing service for photographers using the autotype (carbon) process under licence, and by manufacturing both the basic pigmented gelatine tissue and the transfer papers used in printing. There is a video of the lot on our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram and tic tok.
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