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

Inventory Number 76630


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
76630

Description

The photograph was probably taken a year or two earlier, the lantern slide version made in or about 1898. Miss de Lacy is seated nearly three-quarter length, in a somewhat animated or theatrical pose. 30830 is a closer, head-and-shoulders photograph in the same pose.