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Photograph (Albumen Print) of a Bust of Captain Francis Fowke, c.1866

Inventory Number 70172


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.70172

Item type
Object
Provenance
From a group of papers relating to Francis Fowke that had belonged to his colleague Sir E. F. Du Cane.
Primary inscriptions
The base of the bust itself is marked 'CAPTAIN FOWKE'.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 165mm Width: 131mm
Inventory No
70172
Accession Number
1981-178/1

Description

Albumen print (from a wet collodion glass negative) of a bronze bust of Captain Francis Fowke (1823-1865), original architect of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is presumably the gilt bronze bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum, made in 1866 by Elkington & Co., modelled by Thomas Woolner.

See also actual photograph of Fowke (50335) and portrait medal (22158).