MILITARY AND NAVAL CELEBRITIES
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1880
Materials
Paper
Measurements
244 x 176 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520704.3
Summary
An albumen print montage of 100 head and shoulder portraits of Military and Naval Celebrities, grouped around a centre lower portrait of Wellington and Napoleon. The portrait page has a three thin and one thick line border. On the facing page is a line drawing of the portraits which are numbered and a key identifying each of the protraits is below.
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