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Photograph (Collodion Lantern Slide) of 'Miss de Lacy', by Sarah Angelina Acland, 1898

Inventory Number 30830


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, in 1989. Formerly the property of Henry Minn.
Physical material
Glass
Paper
Inventory No
30830

Description

The photograph was probably taken a year or two earlier, the lantern slide version made in 1898. Miss de Lacy is shown in a close, head-and-shoulders version of the somewhat animated or theatrical pose adopted in the three-quarter length photograph 76630.