A half-length portrait of a woman.
Category
Photographs
Date
1841 - 1865
Materials
Metal, Glass, Leather, Velvet
Measurements
Case 70 x 60 x 14 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520706
Summary
A hand-tinted daguerreotype portrait of a woman, mounted in a plain burgundy leather case with wooden frame and missing metal closure. The case is lined in burgundy velvet and the image is in half-length portrait format, rectangular in shape with rounded corners and a gold mount. The size is 1/9th plate.
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