A monochrome photographic trade card with a photograph of MARY ANDERSON
Stereoscopic Company
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 60 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1519993
Summary
A monochrome woodburytype print trade card with a photograph of MARY ANDERSON. It is printed recto top with PHOTO-MECHANICAL PROCESS, and at bottom with MARY ANDERSON, STEREOSCOPIC CO., 110 & 108 REGENT STREET & 54 CHEAPSIDE. Verso top is a pencil number 3015, and then printed in landscape PEARS' SOAP, FOR THE COMPLEXION. "I find it the very best." MARY ANDERSON.
Provenance
Part of 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
Marks and inscriptions
Recto, top: PHOTO-MECHANICAL PROCESS MARY ANDERSON, STEREOSCOPIC CO., 110 & 108 REGENT STREET & 54 CHEAPSIDE. Verso top is a pencil number 3015, and then printed in landscape PEARS' SOAP, FOR THE COMPLEXION. "I find it the very best." MARY ANDERSON Recto, bottom: MARY ANDERSON, STEREOSCOPIC CO., 110 & 108 REGENT STREET & 54 CHEAPSIDE. Verso, top right: 3015 Verso, centre, landscape: PEARS' SOAP, FOR THE COMPLEXION. "I find it the very best." MARY ANDERSON
Makers and roles
Stereoscopic Company, photographer and publisher