John Pettie (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 1520760.3
Summary
A Woodburytype portrait of John Pettie, taken 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 'JOHN PETTIE.' 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