Female Portrait
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
White card
Measurements
86 x 56 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520159
Summary
A Monochrome Albumen type carte de visite depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a woman. The image is oval on a dark rectangular background. The print is mounted on heavy white card .Recto A red gold border with the photographer's insignia and type ' Henry W. Taunt & Co. , Oxford & Wycombe.' Verso has a logo together with ‘Photographers to the Oxford Architectural Society, 9 & 10 Broad Street Oxford and 81, Easton Street, High Wycombe, Portrait and Landscape Artists and Photographers. It also has ‘Henry W Taunt’ in large script together with a note ‘Portraits in every style and size. Enlarged or reduced and painted in Oil or Water Color’.
Provenance
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