from a related page: "Much controversy arose at this exhibition at the Silver Medal being awarded to a composition print - i.e. one made from more than one negative. Francis Bedford, himself the winner of Bronze Medal for his Landscapes, wrote: "I have much pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the Medal which has just reached me. Had I been aware before-hand that the Silver medal would be awarded for a composition landscape, I could have made up and sent in a View of Jerusalem from two negatives which would, I think, have been interesting, but I was under the impression that such photographs were ineligible for prizes. I need not remind you that a landscape taken upon one plate compares rather disadvantageously with another taken from two negatives, embracing respectively a much larger angle of view." [Letter: Francis Bedford to PSS 25/2/1864] http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/3/3_pss_exhibitions_8th_feb_1864.htm k
