Kath & Tom Speight
Category
Photographs
Date
1911
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.15
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in landscape format, depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a young woman and man: Kath & Tom Speight respectively. The buff coloured paper wallet (part of the "Negasys" storage system - see General Note below) is pre-printed in black ink with a form where details of the photograph can be recorded: Date, Subject, Stop & Exposure, Exposure for Transparency, Exposure for Bromide, Exposure for Gaslight Paper, Print Meter No for Carbon etc, and Note. The wallet has a flap, upon which is printed in black ink the number "14". There is a handmade black paper mask affixed on the emulsion side of the plate, to form a frame around the image. Markings: Handwritten in black ink against "Date": '1911', and against "Subject": 'Kath & Tom Speight (Copy)'. Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA