Unknown Lady
Samuel J. Porter [photographer] Torquay
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Photographic paper, Wood
Measurements
142 x 100 mm
Place of origin
Torquay
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 882090
Summary
Photograph, Unknown Lady, by Samuel J. Porter (photographer) Torquay. Studio three quarter length black and white photograph of a woman in plain dress with checked bow and wearing straw hat decorated with flowers and bows. Photograph numbered LAN.PH.5268 as all photographs have individual PH numbers. Platinum print on a mountboard mount. The mount has a platemark impression. Outside the platemark, the mount has a "dimpled" surface. In the lower border there is printing in black ink: "Saml. J. Porter 4a Strand Torquay". On the reverse of the mount "Hester Hill Holden August 16th 1899" is written in iron gall ink. There is some writing at the bottom of the mount but the mount has been trimmed and the writing is illegible. The glass has recently been attached to the wooden carved frame with strips of white tape. There is a wooden backboard lined with blue fabric and attached with screws. - SC 2003.
Provenance
unknown, possibly acquired with the house
Makers and roles
Samuel J. Porter [photographer] Torquay, photographer