Portrait of Mrs Bancroft (Miss Marie Wilton)
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Measurements
92 x 57 m
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519634
Summary
An undated Monochrome Woodbury type carte de visite depicting a three quarter length portrait of print of Mrs Bancroft (Miss Marie Wilton). She is standing. She has her hair up and is wearing a hat with flowers in it. She is holding a fan/whisk in her left hand. The print is mounted on heavy white 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. In addition there is a printed sticker applied diagonally saying MRS BANCROFT (Miss Marie Wilton)
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