Portrait of an unknown man
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
104 x 64 mm card
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520109
Summary
A monochrome Tintype carte de visite depicting a head and shoulders portrait of an unknown man. Print is mounted on heavy pink card. Recto: Embossed framing and motifs including 3 cherubs. Verso: Plain white sticker 44x51 securing the photograph to the card. Overprinting Young & Son, American Photographers, 59 & 60 Cornhill.
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.