Back cover page for Lock and Whitfield's portrait series 'Men of Mark'.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1875 - 1885
Materials
Paper
Measurements
287 x 216 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520760.31
Summary
Back 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. Recto: advertisement for Willcox and Gibbs silent sewing machine. Verso: back cover carries 2 advertisements for Jay's General Mourning Warehouse and for Brown and Polson's Cornflour. Verso: in pencil top left 2549
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