Carbon print of unknown woman, oval image
Category
Photographs
Date
1878 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
105 x 63 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519982
Summary
A monochrome carbon print carte de visite oval impression portrait of an unknown woman, head and shoulders, wearing a dark button through top with white frilled collar, no hat and hair scraped back. Recto, also printed E.Baudoux Phot. Jersey, Permanent photograph, printed in carbon, chromotypie patent. Verso: prize medal, Mr Baudoux, photographer, 9, New Street, St Helier, Jersey, Negative number 33324
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