BRITISH POETS FROM CHAUCER TO BEATTIE
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1880
Materials
Paper
Measurements
284 x 218 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520704.10
Summary
An albumen print montage of 137 head and shoulder portraits of British Poets, grouped around a central portrait of Shakespeare. Below the print is the title "THE BRITISH POETS FROM CHAUCER TO BEATTIE". The print has a 3 thin line and one thick line border. On the opposite facing page is a line drawing of the people numbered with their 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