Carbon print of Victor Schoenmehl by Romuald
Category
Photographs
Date
1879
Materials
Card
Measurements
106 m x 65 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519986
Summary
A monochrome carbon print carte de visite of an actor(?), Victor Schoenmehl, a half portrait wearing dark jacket, high necked shirt and tie, pince nez, elaborately curled hair and a moustache. Also recto, card is bordered in red; printed top Romuald, bottom, 40 rue de Bondy, Boulevard St Martin. Verso; top right in pencil, No. 5; printed, photographie des folies-dramatiques, Romuald, peintre-photographe, 40 rue de Bondy, Boulevard St Martin, Paris. Written in ink, signature of Victor Schoenmehl and 1879
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