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Combination prints, also called composite photographs, were made by printing a number of separate negatives on a single sheet to create one cohesive composition. As the owner of a photography studio, Robinson hoped these prints would both elevate photography to the status of painting and make a profit. <I>Fading Away</I> was controversial both because its subject was a dying girl and because it was created using five different negatives. Nonetheless, its success saved the artist’s failing business. The photograph is characteristic of Robinson’s other combination prints, many of which were allegorical or sentimental narratives.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"Photo rotation February 2014"}],"media":[{"id":1013,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1984-1","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., p. 36 (illus.)","date":1985,"id":3134,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774658"},{"boilertext":"Ellen Handy, \"Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson\" (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1994).","citation":"Ellen Handy, \"Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson\" (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1994).","date":1994,"id":5760,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/30522947"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Europe, England, Warwickshire","code":"Place made","continent":"Europe","subcontinent":null,"country":"England","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Warwickshire","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/2634723/warwickshire.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2106630,"term":"rooms","aatid":300004044,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2032482,"term":"Pictorialist","aatid":300111559,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053728,"term":"black-and-white photographs","aatid":300128347,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2112008,"term":"windows","aatid":300002944,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2097892,"term":"illness","aatid":300189799,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053941,"term":"staged photographs","aatid":300184557,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2054071,"term":"composite photographs","aatid":300134769,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2153946,"term":"albumen process","aatid":300133274,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2154494,"term":"combination printing","aatid":300139242,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2031586,"term":"British","aatid":300111159,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2156299,"term":"mounting","aatid":300081370,"termtype":"Techniques"},{"id":2153946,"term":"albumen process","aatid":300133274,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"classifications":[{"id":2153946,"classification":"albumen process"},{"id":2053728,"classification":"black-and-white photographs"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031586,"culture":"British"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"mount","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"18.00"},{"element":"mount","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"23.80"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"14.50"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"22.30"}],"packages":[{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":183099,"name":"Photography-19thcentury_01"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1984-1"],"displaymaker":"Henry Peach Robinson, 1830–1901; born Ludlow, England; died Tunbridge Wells, England","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901; born Ludlow, England; died Tunbridge Wells, England), Fading Away, 1858, printed ca. 1880. 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