- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Joseph Wright
- Provenance
- Presented by Mrs Wright in 1938, along with a small group of letters (MS Museum 38) and accompanying the phonograph and cylinders belonging to Wright.
- Primary inscriptions
- Photographer's printed details on front and back of mount.
- Other inscriptions
- Inscribed on back of mount 'Prof. Joseph Wright. Presented with his Phonograph & Dialect Records by Mrs. J. Wright Jan. 1938.'.
- Object type
- photograph
- Dimensions
- Height: 144mm Width: 97mm
- Inventory No
- 13196
- Accession Number
- 1937-17 -18
Description
Carbon print mounted on card. Head and shoulders, turned slightly to right but looking front. With his signature 'Yours sincerely JWright.' pasted below (probably cut from a letter). The mount, which is very grubby, has been deliberately broken along the right-hand side (not affecting the photograph), and has attached to it a large manilla envelope and Wright's circular letter of 1895 seeking subscriptions to the English Dialect Dictionary (printed in facsimile of his handwriting).
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