Albumen print
A print made using albumen paper, popular for photographic printing between 1850 and 1900. Thin paper was coated with a layer of egg-white (albumen) containing salt and sensitized with a silver nitrate solution, then printed using daylight under a negative. The resulting paper had a smooth surface with a fine sheen. Albumen prints could be toned with a gold solution which gave a rich purplish-brown colour to the image and reduced the risk of fading.
The old gardener Simpson....and his wife
by George Washington Wilson
1854
NPG P22(14)
Isabella Beeton (Mrs Beeton)
by Maull & Polyblank
1857
NPG P3
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
by Robert Howlett
November 1857
NPG P112
Charles Dickens
by Herbert Watkins
29 April 1858
NPG P301(20)
Alice Liddell
by Lewis Carroll
July 1860
NPG P991(8)
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by David Wilkie Wynfield
1860s
NPG P79
Aina (Sarah Forbes Bonetta (later Davies))
by Camille Silvy
15 September 1862
NPG Ax61380
George Frederic Watts
by Julia Margaret Cameron
circa 1865-1869
NPG P125
John Brown; Queen Victoria
by W. & D. Downey
1868
NPG P22(4)
Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari with the Sirdars
by John Burke
1878-1879
NPG P330
Robert Louis Stevenson and family
by J. Davis
circa 1891
NPG x4630
Rudyard Kipling
by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry
1893
NPG x11810