Unknown woman seated in silk dress next to fern.
Category
Photographs
Date
1878 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
104 x 62 mm
Place of origin
Jersey
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519978
Summary
A monochrome carbon print carte de visite of an unknown woman, full length, seated, wearing a dark silk day dress with fichu. She has her hands on her lap, no hat and is seated next to a fern plant. Recto, the portrait of rectangular shape with rounded corners is mounted on card, printed at bottom with E.Baudoux Phot. Jersey, Permanent photograph, printed in carbon, chromotypie patent. Verso, printed: Prize medal, Mr Badoux, photographer, 59 New Street, St Heliers, Jersey. Also marked Negative number 26022
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