An actress in a costume.
Category
Photographs
Date
1896 - 1920
Materials
Glass, Wood, Gold paint
Measurements
465 x 392 x 40 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521146
Summary
A gelatine silver print, head and shoulders portrait of an actress in a costume. She is wearing an elaborate turban-style headdress decorated with long feathers and pearls. Her dress is sequined and draped with pearls. The image is mounted in a rectangular gold coloured frame. Embossed into the paper in the bottom left corner, next to the frame, is the photographer's name: "J.E. Purdy & Co, Boston". Verso: Two lengths of 20mm x 30mm wood affixed to the back board.
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.