- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Long & Co.
- Provenance
- Purchased from R. S. Clay in 1944. Part of the Clay Collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- Prnted label on back of mount: 'Long & Co. | Photographers, | 45, High Street, | Exeter, | and | 83, Union Street, | Plymouth.'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 83mm Width: 71mm
- Inventory No
- 40750
- Accession Number
- 1944-1
Description
Collodion positive on glass (ambrotype), enclosed and semi-cased. Portrait of a woman, seated three-quarter length, turned to right, her left arm resting on a table by a vase of roses. Lightly tinted, including with gold. Enclosed in brass frame and plane oval brass mat. Embedded in half-case, with ring on top edge for hanging. The printed photographer's label on the back is extremely unusual, collodion positives being almost invariably anonymous.
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