Philip Henry Delamotte (21 April 1821 – 24 February 1889) was a British photographer and illustrator. Delamotte was born at the

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, the son of Mary and William Alfred Delamotte. Philip Delamotte became an artist and was famous for his photographic images of

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of 1854. He eventually became Professor of Drawing and Fine Art at

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The Crystal Palace

He was commissioned to record the disassembly of the

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in 1852, and its reconstruction and expansion at

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, a project finished in 1854. His photographic record of the events is one of the best archives of the way the building was constructed and he published the prints in several books. They were some of the first books in which photographic prints were published. He and

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were among the first artists to use photography as a way of recording important structures and events following the invention of

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. They were both founding members of the Calotype Club. The National Monuments Record, the public archive of

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holds a rare album of 47 photographs recording the building and exhibits in about 1859, these can be seen online. Crystal Palace General view from Water Temple.jpg, The Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Crystal Palace Centre transept & north tower from south wing.jpg, Close-up of The Crystal Palace. Delamotte-Crystal.png, View of the interior.

Family

Delamotte had four siblings; Freeman Gage Delamotte (1813-1862), Edward Delamotte (1817-1896), Louisa Delamotte (1820-1887) and Geraldine Delamotte (1826-1902). On 4 August 1846, at Paddington, he married Ellen Maria George, a farmer's daughter. The couple had a son and five daughters, the fourth of whom - Constance George - married Henry Charles Bond in 1887.Tim Hopkinson-Ball, 'The Rediscovery of Glastonbury. Frederick Bligh Bond, Architect of the New Age.' (Sutton Publishing, 2007.) p.11. Delamotte died on 24 February 1889 at the home of his son-in-law Henry Bond in Bromley, Kent.

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Historic Crystal Palace images from the 1850s''All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860''
exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Philip Henry Delamotte (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Delamotte, Philip Henry 1821 births 1889 deaths 19th-century English photographers English photojournalists Pioneers of photography 19th-century British journalists British male journalists Academics of King's College London Photographers from Berkshire

The Crystal Palace

Family

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