Miss Maria Harris, actress
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
103 x 64 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519976
Summary
A monochrome Woodbury type carte de visite of Miss Maria Harris, actress, in a half portrait with printed floral rectangular frame. She is wearing formal day dress with her hand to her neck and hair up adorned with flowers. Plain background. Recto printed top: Wednesday Programme Penny Portrait photograph miniature from life, bottom: Woodbury Permanent Photograph. Verso plain.
Provenance
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