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In the Reverend John M. Jephson published his book on the birthplace, home, and grave of Shakespeare. Nestled within the pages of text are a series of photographs of sites relating to Shakespeare’s life in Stratford-on-Avon. For a photo-historian like myself these photographs are of particular interest because they predate the commercial continuous and half-tone printing processes we are all more familiar with today.
The fifteen images were all taken in by the well-known Victorian photographer Ernest Edwards. Each one is an albumen print stuck directly onto the page by hand. Commercial publishing of outdoor photography was still in its early years and these images are among the first to bring realistic images of Shakespeare’s birthplace and memorials into the public eye.
Ancient House, Stratford On Avon (detail)
In the above detail we can get an idea of how difficult his task was. If you look carefully at the image you can see the fashionable lady in the centre of the image who must have remained motionless for some time, and to the left is the faint outline of a man holding a sack captured by the long exposure.
Even so, their early date and location in a relatively obscure publication means they are not as well-known as perhaps they s
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THE FACTS ABOUT
SHAKESPEARE
The Shakespeare Monument in the Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon.
BY
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
AND
ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Ph.D., L.H.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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