Carbon print of unknown woman with corsage and tasseled cushion.
Category
Photographs
Date
1878 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
104 x 63 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519980
Summary
A monochrome carbon print carte de visite of an unknown woman; she is seen in half portrait, leaning on a tasseled cushion. She is wearing a button through jacket with a corsage at the neck and her hair is up. Also recto, printed at the bottom is E.Baudoux, Phot. Jesey, Permanent photograph printed in carbon, chromotypie patent. Verso, Prize medal, Mr Baudoux photographer, 59 New Street, St Helier, Jersey. Negative number 34686
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