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                            Introduction
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Philip Henry Delamotte (21 April 1821 - 24 February 1889) was a
British photographer and illustrator.


                                Life
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Delamotte was born at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, the son
of Mary and William Alfred Delamotte. Philip Delamotte became an
artist and was famous for his photographic images of the Crystal
Palace of 1854. He eventually became Professor of Drawing and Fine Art
at King's College London.


                         The Crystal Palace
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He was commissioned to record the disassembly of the Crystal Palace in
1852, and its reconstruction and expansion at Sydenham, 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 Roger Fenton were
among the first artists to use photography as a way of recording
important structures and events following the invention of calotype
photography. They were both founding members of the Calotype Club. The
National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage
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
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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.
Delamotte died on 24 February 1889 at the home of his son-in-law Henry
Bond in Bromley, Kent.


                              See also
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*History of photography


                           External links
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140414160526/http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/results.aspx?index=0&form=advanced&collection=P%20H%20Delamotte
Historic Crystal Palace images from the 1850s]
*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/52296/rec/19
'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)


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