Head and shoulders portrait, full face of a woman
Category
Photographs
Date
1879 - 1890
Materials
Paper, Card
Measurements
100 x 64 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521133.2
Summary
A monochrome carbon carte de visite depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a female. The woman is wearing a button to the neck dress with a lace collar and a large brooch on the collar. Print is mounted on card and inserted into album panel.
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