Der Besuch
Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804 - Munich 1877)
Category
Photographs
Date
1873 - 1884
Materials
Card
Measurements
216 x 156 mm
Place of origin
Munich
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520681.12
Summary
A monochrome albumen print on cream coloured card. A copy of a painting, depicting a family group of four adults one man and three women and a young baby . Image is in landscape format. Bottom right is a signature, F.Defregger 1871. Recto: below the picture is a small decorated rectangle containing the printed words and numbers 784 F. Defregger 1883,Der Besuch Underneath this is printed to the left 'Vervielfaltigung vorbeh' and to the right 'Depose. - Registered'. In the centre underneath is printed 'FRANZ HANFSTAENGL, MUNCHEN' Verso: blank
Provenance
Par 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
Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804 - Munich 1877) , photographer