Composite photograph - Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec, 1870 | McCord Museum

Carnaval de patinage, patinoire Victoria, Montréal, Québec, 1870

Composite photograph

Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec, 1870

Painter Henry Sandham (1842-1910)

Painter Edward Sharpe (1850-1871)

Photography studio William Notman Studio (1863-1877)

SignatureOn image, handwritten in red paint, l.r. : Hy Sandham / Edward Sharpe / Fecit. / 1870; l.l. : Notman Photo

Date 1870

Medium / Technique Silver salts and oil paint on canvas mounted in frame
Albumen process

Dimensions137 × 176 cm

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts

Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada, North America

Object NumberN-0000.116.21.1

DivisionPhotography - Notman Photographic Archives

CollectionMcCord

CreditGift of Charles Frederick Notman

Notes

“The effect of the brilliant colours and the light is magical”

Notman’s ultimate result was this painted photograph, which was displayed at his studio for 65 years. To create the large format, a negative of the original paste-up was projected through a solar enlarger onto an emulsified canvas. Two leading members of the studio’s art department then hand coloured the surface in oil. Inglis announced that he also had a colourized version of his composite on display at his studio, but its whereabouts remain unknown.

Status

On view

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