Alex Dumas
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
87 x 55 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519658
Summary
A Monochrome Woodbury type carte de visite depicting half length portrait of moustached Alex Dumas, sitting with right hand in trouser pocket, wearing jacket and waistcoat with watch chain mounted on card. On recto is a thick gold border. On verso is handwritten name , going diagonally from top right to bottom left corner 'Alex Dumas'.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection to the Museum of Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.