A head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing a bowler hat
Category
Photographs
Date
1867 - 1868
Materials
Card
Measurements
21 x 17 mm
Place of origin
Bradford
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520103
Summary
A monochrome tintype carte de visite portrait of a man wearing a bowler hat. The portrait is in an oval frame mounted verso on a decorated heavy pink card. Recto the tintype portrait is fixed in position in the centre with white tape. Recto is printed top with FROM T. TAYLOR'S, AMERICAN GEM STUDIO. Bottom is 72 MARKET STREET, BRADFORD, OPPPOSITE TOWN HALL.
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: Printed top with FROM T. TAYLOR'S, AMERICAN GEM STUDIO. Bottom is 72 MARKET STREET, BRADFORD, OPPPOSITE TOWN HALL