THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT EDWARD GROUP OF MODERN CELEBRITIES
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1880
Materials
Paper
Measurements
312 x 77 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520704.1
Summary
An albumen print montage of head and shoulder portraits of 104 celebrities, groupoed around a central portrait of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wakes. Below the print is the title "THE VICTORIA & ALBERT EDWARD GROUP OF MODERN CELEBRITIES". The print has a three thin and one thick line border. On the opposite facing page is a line drawing with the portraits numbered with the names underneath.
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