A full length portrait of a seated lady 1520191

A full length portrait of a seated lady

Fox Talbot Museum, Fenton Collection © National Trust /
Sue Spanton and Damian Hughes

Date

1864

Materials

Card

Measurements

88 x 57 mm

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Collection

Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire

NT 1520191

Summary

A Monochrome Woodbury type carte de visite depicting a full length portrait of a seated lady wearing a formal dress and holding a book in her right hand. The print is mounted on heavy white card. Recto is printed bottom left Bayard & Bertall Phot. Verso top right is handwritten midi 1864, centre is a ring printed on which is BAYARD & BERTALL. above the ring is printed PHOTOGRAPHIE, below RUE DE LA MADELEINE No 15 BIS

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, bottom left: BAYARD & BERTALL PHOT. Verso top right: midi1864 Verso centre: A ring printed on which is BAYARD & BERTALL. above the ring is printed PHOTOGRAPHIE, below RUE DE LA MADELEINE No 15 BIS

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