- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Mayall
- Provenance
- Purchased from R. S. Clay in 1944. Part of the Clay Collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- Photographer's printed label on back: 'Mayall's | Photographic Portrait Galleries, | 224, Regent Street, | (Corner of Argyle Place) | London. | Open and free admission from ten till dusk. | Communications to be addressed to the Secretary.'. Inscribed on label: 'J.H.A.C.' (or possibly 'J.H.A.6.').
- Dimensions
- Height: 85mm Width: 175mm
- Inventory No
- 70831
- Accession Number
- 1944-1
Description
Stereoscopic daguerreotype, enclosed in black tape with black mat with curved tops. An elderly man, seated three-quarter length, turned to left, his right hand resting on a book and holding lorgnettes which hang around his neck on a cord or chain; tinted. As well as the photographer's printed label on the back (same wording as 45130) there is an inscription 'J.H.A.C.', presumably the initials of the subject.
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