A Christmas Greetings card
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Plastic, Card, Ribbon
Measurements
135 x 84 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521179
Summary
A gelatine silver print depicting a man and a woman on a riverbank. The oval image is mounted on a plastic front cover of a Christmas card. The plastic cover markings: image is surrounded by a decorative raised border. The words "Remembrance" and "Good Health, some Wealth and many Happy Days" The plastic cover is machine stitched to a cardboard back sheet. On the reverse of the cardboard back is handwritten in pencil : "2147" The cardboard insert has printed verses and a handwritten greeting.
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