#  Amelia Elizabeth Guppy (1808-1886) 

 



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[View images of Amelia Elizabeth Guppy's paper negatives.](https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Amelia%20Elizabeth%20Guppy&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD_IMAGES&offset=0)

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy grew up in Herefordshire, England and studied under the painter and writer David Cox. Amelia eloped with Robert Guppy, a lawyer, and they lived for a period in Trinidad. The English collector, Sir Thomas Phillipps later approached Guppy about photographing items in his vast collection. Her simple, hand-sewn albums include paper calotype negatives and salted paper prints. The images include extraordinarily precise views of a Babylonian clay cylinder and a fragment of a Babylonian inscription stacked on top of two leather-bound books.

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["Still life with ancient Babylonian artifacts on books," Amelia Guppy, paper negative, 1853, Houghton Library, Harvard University](https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=HVD_VIA8001251112&context=L&vid=HVD_IMAGES&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US)   ![Alt Text](/sites/g/files/omnuum11151/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/saltprintsatharvard/files/hl_-_pga_-_1391_-_guppy_amelia_elizabeth_-_inverted.jpg?itok=GbmeZg6g) 

 

"Still life with ancient Babylonian artifacts on books," Amelia Guppy, salted paper print, 1853, Houghton Library, Harvard University