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Pictorial Effect in Photography: being hints on composition and chiaroscuro for photographers. To which is added a chapter on combination painting

ROBINSON, Henry Peach. · 1869 · 62 pictures

A practical manual of composition and chiaroscuro written by the photographer Henry Peach Robinson and published in London in 1869 for working and amateur photographers. Outline wood engravings diagram coastlines, paths and horizon placement, flat tonal wedges demonstrate light and shade, and softer plates reproduce posed figure groups in interiors — useful for schematic landscape framing, hatched gradients and lesson-style figure captions.

British Library · HMNTS 789.bb.26. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)