St Peter Mancroft, Norwich

Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Norfolk, c 1850. Albumen print by Thomas Damant Eaton (1800-71). Thomas Damant Eaton, described as The father of the arts in the Eastern Counties, was a music critic and musician, and a gentleman amateur photographer who became the first President of the Norwich Photographic Society. Active from the mid-1840s, Eaton worked with paper negatives and salted paper prints and was familiar with many photographic processes. This view probably used a paper negative that may have subsequently have been waxed to produce this particular print

Amateur Counties Critic Described Eaton Familiar Mancroft Negatives Norwich Particular Picturing England Processes Produce Salted Subsequently Waxed

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