'PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PEOPLE'
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1867
Materials
Cardboard, Leather or leatherette
Measurements
330 x 280 x 25 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520704
Summary
A photograph album or photographers book containing 11 albumen prints of montages (head and shoulders portraits) of people with differing numbers of portraits on each page. The book is red leather or leatherette casebound, with embossed gold lines and decorative corners and the words 'PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PEOPLE'. The back cover is similar but not guilded.
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