A portrait of a female
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, Card
Measurements
image 54 x 34 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520006
Summary
A monochrome carbon print carte de visite depicting head and shoulders portrait of a female wearing a high collared black coat and a black feathered hat. Print is mounted on light with paper and then onto heavy grey card with a serrated edge. There is an embossed border around the image and paper. Verso: Printed in gold 'The Season's Greetings' beneath the portrait. Recto is plain.
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