Portrait of Charles Langton Lockton
Lombardi & Co, London
Category
Photographs
Date
1851 - 1870
Materials
Paper, Card
Measurements
card size 164 x 108 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520695.8
Summary
An albumen print cabinet card of Charles Langton Lockton, mounted on a paper page within an album. The photograph is in portrait format and has rounded corners. The picture is of a middle-aged man, in a studio, posed head and shoulders portrait in slightly side profile looking to his left. The gentleman has a moustache and is wearing a buttoned-up jacket, collar and tie. Recto: The photograph has a cream margin and printed in brown on the bottom wide margin, 'Cabinet Portrait' and the photographers name: 'Lombardi & Co Photo's' 'London & Brighton' To the right of the photograph hand written in pencil on the album page: "Charles Lockton"
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
Lombardi & Co, London, photographer