Half length Carbon print of unknown man
Category
Photographs
Date
1879
Materials
Card
Measurements
105 x 64 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519988
Summary
Monochrome Carbon print by Romuald, Paris 1879 recto: half-portrait of man with full beard and moustache, pose to the left. Wearing dark jacket, high collared shirt, tie in a bow, handkerchief in breast pocket. black ink printed: Romauld at the top and 40 rue de Bondy. Boulevard St-Martin at the bottom. The image is pasted onto a cream card with red border. verso: in pencil No.31 at top. In black ink printed: Photographie des Folies-Dramatiques, Romauld, Peintre-Photographe, 40, Rue de Bondy, 40 (Boulveard St-Martin) Paris In pencil: 1879
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A Gift from the British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of the BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased the collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.