Head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a dress with an ornate neckline.
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1900
Materials
Glass, Wood, Gold paint, Card
Measurements
443 x 389 x 30 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521145
Summary
An opalotype head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a dress with an ornate neckline, by Alexander Ayton of Edinburgh. Opalotypes are carbon prints on translucent white glass. The image is mounted in a rectangular gold frame and in an ornate cream and gold frame. Verso behind pull-out stand: a white paper label printed in gold ink: "Alex Ayton, 43 N Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh" Also on the label, top right corner, written in pencil: "1926"
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.