Wodburytype portrait photograph
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Measurements
92 x 57 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519628
Summary
A Monochrome Woodbury type carte de visite depicting an half length portrait of an unnamed seated woman looking to her right. The print is mounted on heavy cream card. Recto Printed single line border and a scroll design. Parts of the scroll are inscribed 'FIGARO PORTRAIT but the main section is blank. Verso Printed justified centre is 'THE FIGARO-PROGRAMME. Price Two Pence OFFICE ST BRIDE STREET & SHOE LANE, LONDON, E.C WILLIAM WRIGHT, Mount Manufacturer and GOLD & COLOUR PRINTER,15 Wine Office Court, FLEET STREET, E.C.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Marks and inscriptions
Recto, bottom left: FIGARO Recto, bottom right: PORTRAIT Verso: Printed justified centre is 'THE FIGARO-PROGRAMME. Price Two Pence OFFICE ST BRIDE STREET & SHOE LANE, LONDON, E.C WILLIAM WRIGHT, Mount Manufacturer and GOLD & COLOUR PRINTER,15 Wine Office Court, FLEET STREET, E.C.