Die Heimkehr
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 1520681.2
Summary
A monochrome albumen print on cream coloured card. A copy of a painting, depicting within a border a huntsman being greeted by a female figure holding a baby and a female child, a dog is in the bottom left corner. Bottom right is a signature, F.Defregger 1883 Recto: below the picture is a small decorated rectangle containing the printed words and numbers '996 F. Defregger 1883 Die Heimkehr [the homecoming]. 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
Part of the Fenton Collection, a gift from the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2017. From 1986-1999, it was part of the BFI’s collection for the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI). The BFI purchased the collection in 1986 from James Fenton (Fenton Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man (1976-1986)
Makers and roles
Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804 - Munich 1877) , photographer