PhotographsBritish19th century

Untitled (four photographs, Colonel Bathurst; Sir E. Filmer; Mr. (?) Biddulph; Captain Lane Fox; center photograph of Captain Stewart is missing)

1862-1888

Artists

Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil FilmerArtist

NotmanArtist

Description

Sitter information: Colonel Bathurst. Sir Frederick Bathurst (b. 13 March 1833), Lt. Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. MP for South Wiltshire 1861-1865. Married 24 April 1869, to Ada (d. 27 February 1914) only surviving daughter of Sir John Ribton. Sir Edmund Filmer (1835-1886) Mr. (?) Biddulph Captain Lane Fox. The Bingham title is now extinct and the Lane Fox line has died out directly.

Classification

Photographs

Technique

Albumen silver print

Medium

Album page with four carte de visite albumen silver prints (the fifth, center photograph is missing). The photograph of Captain Lane Fox is imprinted with "Notman" a photographic business with studios in Canada and the U.S.

Culture

British

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Photographs

Dimensions

28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

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