Portraits of 2 unknown women and 2 unknown children.
Anglo-American
Category
Photographs
Date
1856 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
103 x 64 mm card
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520107
Summary
A monochrome Tintype carte de visite depicting 4 head and shoulders portraits of 2 unknown women and 2 unknown children. Print is mounted on heavy white card. Recto: Each image is surrounded with embossed leaf design. Verso: Advertising sticker for Anglo America Photographic Company, 153 Fleet Street, London EC, 3 Doz Gem Portraits in 4 positions 2/6. The best portrait for lockets, brooches, rings & pins, for cheapness and durability not equaled. Made and finished in ten minutes. All kinds of photographic work sharply executed. Carte de visites from 5/6 per dozen.
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