Norwich or maybe China?

[Hatfield Shed]

Or possibly 1861, in James Clerk Maxwell's demonstration of an additive colour photograph of a tartan ribbon, before the Royal Institution in London? Not a practical technique for taking or showing photographs, and he obtained his result by a curious fluke of the red filter transmission too.

For anyone interested the Kodak Museum curator of some years ago, Brian Coe, produced a very readable and well illustrated overview titled 'Colour Photography, the first hundred years 1840 - 1940', ISBN 0904069 23 0. If you flip through it quickly front to rear it's like a poke in the eye when the first Kodachromes appear, 'Gives us those nice bright colours, gives us the green of summers, makes you think all the world's a sunny day' : that's really when colour photography became what it is today. Slightly off topic there...

[kimballthurlow]

Thank you Stevie G and Mickey.
The Osaka photo looks rather natural, when studied.

regards
Kimball