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Last Name Negretti

Given Name Enrico Angelo Ludovico

alt. Names E. A. L. N. ; Henry Negretti ;

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Year born 1818 or 1822

Year died 1879

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Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for traveller photographer Francis Frith; Photographies anthropologiques d'habitants

Patronage opticians & scientific instrument makers to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & Edward VII, Royal Observatory & British Admiralty, Crystal Palace Co.

Collaborators Joseph Zambra partner in 1850 as scientific (philosophical); -> Pierre Rossier, photographer commissioned by Negretti & Zambra for travel to China 1855-7

Techniques photography, also stereo-photography, portraiture

Sample(s) www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/ManualSSPL/10435521.aspx ; http://sydney.edu.au/museums/collections/macleay/hist_photos/virtual_empire/a_z_list.shtml

Archival sources http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=%28%13%11negretti+%13%11and+%13%11zambra%29|%13%11negretti%11and%11zambra&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subj

Published sources Kirchheimer 1982: 39 ; Negretti & Zambra ;

other sponsors of Frith's photographic expedition to Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia

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