Victor Emanuel III King of Italy
Ogden and Co.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1905
Materials
Photographic card
Measurements
52 x 32 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520684.10
Summary
A gelatine silver print cigarette card, depicting the Victor Emanuel III King of Italy in quarter-length portrait. The subject is posed in profile and in military uniform. Print is on thin card, without border, mounted into a paper aperture within an album page of 'Ogden's New Century Photo-Album'. The image includes a photographically printed caption, identifying its series number and subject, and the brand banner 'Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes'. The image is also captioned on the album page, with the same details of card number and subject, 'No.9 Victor Emanuel III King of Italy , Born 11 Nov., 1869. Asseccion 29 July, 1900.'
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
Makers and roles
Ogden and Co., cigarette manufacturer