Mrs W Collin
Category
Photographs
Date
1912
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.26
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in portrait format, depicting a full length portrait of a woman in a garden, standing next to a large fern plant on a stand. She is touching the plant and looking down at it. 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 "25". The image has been retouched around the area of the face, most likely to lighten the shadows. Condition: there is very minor silver mirroring on the emulsion side the plate. Handwritten in black ink against "Date": 'July 1912' and against "Subject": 'Mrs W Collin, Full Length". 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