A family group including a soldier, Arthur.
Category
Photographs
Date
1916
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.34
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in landscape format, depicting a family group in a garden. A man and woman are seated, with a young girl on the grass at their feet, and behind them are three women and two men, one in uniform, presumably "Arthur" referred to in the caption on the wallet. 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 "33'. The image has been retouched, around the faces of the people. Condition: There is some silver mirroring around the edges of the plate. Handwritten in black ink on the wallet, against "Date": 'Oct 22nd 1916"; against "Subject": 'Family group incl. Arthur; against "Stop & Exposure": 'F8, 1/2 sec'. 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