A young girl, Violet
Category
Photographs
Date
1913
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.33
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in portrait format, depicting a full length portrait of a young girl, Violet, standing on a path, wearing a dress with a white lace collar. Two women can just be seen in the background. There was a second image originally with this one, also of the same girl, Violet, sitting on a wall outside a house, with a dog. It has been catalogued separately in another wallet in the box - see Inventory No. 1522898.37. 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 "32". Handwritten in black ink against "Date": 'Oct 18th 1913'; against "Subject": 'Violet (full length) & (with Pat)"; against "Stop & Exposure": 'F8. 1/8 sec'; against "Exposure for Bromide": 'Enl. 4 secs'; and against "Exposure for Gaslight Paper": 'Kodak Soft Art. 40 secs. 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