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Photograph (Collodion Positive on Glass) of a Woman, 1850s, in Card Box

Inventory Number 80516


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.80516

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by E. J. Bowen in 1956. Belonged to the family of Bowen's wife, Edith, who was the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Moule, farmers, of Hartlebury, near Worcester.
Physical material
Glass
Inventory No
80516
Accession Number
1956-13

Description

Collodion positive on glass (ambrotype), enclosed and cased, 1850s. Portrait of a woman, seated three-quarter length, her left elbow is resting on a table by a vase of flowers. Image has been hand tinted. Enclosed in gilt frame with oval copper alloy mat. Embedded in a crude half-case of wood covered in thin leather.

The photograph is one of three, depicting members of the same family. (Companion of Inv. 58627 and Inv. 63540).

Photograph is stored in a card box previously used to hold Ilford Ordinary Plates.