David Livingstone by Thomas Annan

Författare/Upphovsman:

Thomas Annan / Adam Cuerden

Kreditera:

National Galleries of Scotland Accession number: PGP 74.2

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/9d225

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

1920 x 2347 Pixel (1586649 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

"David Livingstone, 1813 - 1873. Missionary and explorer", a carbon print of a photograph by Thomas Annan, 36.90 x 30.20 cm. Gift to the National Galleries of Scotland by T & R Annan and Sons, 1930

Restoration notes

This was an interesting one. Quality was absolutely superb; detail's incredible. Printing technology is often what holds back image detail in this period, and the paper texture is really pretty much unnoticable at this scale. In any case, this is excellent work. This does show up some flaws. One knee is pretty badly out of focus. The edges had some pretty major damage, lower right hand corner was probably the worst. The background was very dirty - probably because people selectively handled it - but since that's just a smooth bokeh it's not that big of a deal; any minor variance from the original is not meaningful. Some noticable damage around the edges of a sharp transition from light to dark ; that might be some chemical thing, like dye leeching, might just be particularly noticable since it's more precise work; in any case, I fixed it.

Licens:

Public domain