Crystoleum photograph
The crystoleum process or chromo-photography is a technique that is somewhere between painting and photography. It evolved in the second half of the 19th century. The name refers to ‘crystal’ and ‘oleum’ (oil), and describes a method of applying colour to an albumen print. This method was popular from about 1880 to 1910. This crystoleum photograph shows a portrait of the photographer’s daughter Marian, who lived in Exeter and died in 1883, aged 39. Her father Owen Angel (1821?-1909) was a well-known Exeter photographer with a studio at 11 High Street. Angel was born in Totnes and moved to Exeter in the 1840s. He experimented with various forms of photography and also produced small carte de visite portraits. Angel was a founding member of the Devon and Exeter Photographic Society in 1857 and at one time photographer to the Exeter School of Art.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 962/1988
- Collection Class
- Photographs
- Medium
- Crystoleum photograph on convex glass on Framed
- Common Name
- Crystoleum photograph
- Simple Name
- photograph
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Person Initials
- Owen
- Production Person Surname
- Angel
- Production Year Low
- 1880
- Production Year High
- 1883
