Portrait of an unknown women
Anglo-American
Category
Photographs
Date
1856 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
106 x 65 mm card
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520104
Summary
A monochrome Tintype carte de visite depicting a head and shoulders portrait of an unknown women. Print is mounted on heavy pale blue card. Recto: Gold ornate decorative border. Verso: Advertising sticker which reads 3 Doz Gen Portraits for 2s 6d, 18 for 1s 3d; 9 for 71/2 d, by the Anglo American Photo Company, 153 Fleet Street, Over "FUN" Office and 272 Regents Circus, Oxford Street W. All kinds of copying and enlarging done.
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.
Makers and roles
Anglo-American , photographic studio