Sir Charles Dilke M.P.
Ogden and Co.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1905
Materials
Photographic card
Measurements
52 x 32 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520684.40
Summary
A gelatine silver print cigarette card, depicting Sir Charles Dilke M.P. The subject is posed in half-profile. Print is on thin card, without border, mounted into an oval 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.42. Sir Charles Dilke M.P. for the Forest of Dean. Military Expert. Author of "Greater Britain", &c.'
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