OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC CELEBRITIES
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1880
Materials
Paper
Measurements
282 x 220 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520704.5
Summary
An albumen print montage of 83 head and shoulder portraits. They are Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities, all the portraits are grouped around a central portrait of Henry Irving. Below the print is the title "OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC CELEBRITIES". The print has a 3 thin line border inside a single thick line border. On the opposite facing page is a line drawing of the people numbered with thier 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