Violet with a doll, and Pat, the dog.
Category
Photographs
Date
1913
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
171 x 158 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522898.42
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in original buff paper wallet, in landscape format, depicting a young girl, Violet, sitting on a low wall by the front steps of a house, wearing a dress with a white lace collar and holding a doll in her arms. There is a dog sitting on the ground next to her (notes on the original wallet indicate the dog is called Pat). The front door is open and the lower half of a woman can just be seen. There was a second image originally with this one, also of the same girl, Violet, standing on a path. It has been catalogued separately in another wallet in the box - see Inventory No. 1522898.33. 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 "41". There are no handwritten notes on this wallet. Refer to wallet for 1522898.33 for details including date. 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