William Edward Forster MP (Woodburytype) c.1880.
Lock & Whitfield [photographers] London
Category
Photographs
Date
1876 - 1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
285 x 216 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520760.11
Summary
A Woodburytype portrait of William Edward Forster MP, by Lock and Whitfield. The photograph is a vignette portrait mounted on heavy paper, within an oval decorative border. Below in pale, grey type is written 'THE RIGHT HON. W. E. FORSTER' Page footer left, in pale grey type: 'Lock and Whitfield' Page footer right, in pale grey type: 'Woodbury Process' This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
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
Lock & Whitfield [photographers] London, photographer