Cover page for Lock and Whitfield's portrait series 'Men of Mark'.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Category
Photographs
Date
1876 - 1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
287 x 216 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520760.1
Summary
Cover page for Lock and Whitfield's Woodburytype series, 'Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits'. The cover is from Vol. VI, No. LXIII. Printed on heavy grey paper. Verso: Title page including details of photographers, publishers and portrait subjects. Recto: Inside front cover carries 3 advertisements for 'Lamplough's Efferevescing Pyretic Saline', 'Osler's Crystal Glass Chandeliers', and 'Pathways of Palestine', together with an advert for further volumes of the 'Men of Mark' series.
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
Makers and roles
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, publisher