Quarter length portrait of unknown boy
Joseph Bottomley (d.1909)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1880
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 103 x 64 mm
Place of origin
Bradford
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520024
Summary
A monochrome albumen print carte de visite depicting a quarter-length portrait of an unknown boy. Print is mounted on heavy white card. Recto: printed with "J Bottomley, Photo. Bradford". Verso: Photographer's crest and details "J Bottomley, Photographer, Bradford"
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
Verso: J Bottomley, Photographer, Bradford
Makers and roles
Joseph Bottomley (d.1909), photographic studio