A family group at tea on the lawn
Category
Photographs
Date
1913
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.29
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in landscape format, depicting a family group having tea in a garden. Two men and three women are seated around a low table. There is a dog next to the group. In the distance are rows of terraced houses. 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 "28". There is another, almost identical image which was originally stored with this plate, but has been catalogued separately - see Inventory No. 1522898.40. Condition: There is some silver mirroring around the edges of the plate. Handwritten in black ink on the wallet, against "Date": 'July 24th 1913"; against "Subject": 'Family at tea on lawn'; against "Stop & Exposure": F8, 1/8 sec, 4.30PM; and against "Exposure for Bromide": '25 sec D.R. lamp 12 in'. 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