Miss Bradshaw
Category
Photographs
Date
1912
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.27
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in portrait format, depicting a half length portrait of a woman wearing a dark dress with a white lace collar. There was a second image originally with this one, almost identical, except that the woman is smiling in this one and not in the other. It has been catalogued separately in another wallet in the box - see Inventory No. 1522898.39. 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 "26". The image has been retouched around the area of the face, most likely to lighten the shadows. Handwritten in black ink against "Date": 'June 1912'; against "Subject": 'Miss Bradshaw"; against "Stop & Exposure": 'F16. 1/10 sec'; and against "Exposure for Gaslight Paper": 'Wellington 40 mins at 6 ins'. 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