MAULL & POLYBLANK

Professor Owen, 1856

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MAULL & POLYBLANK
Professor Owen, 1856
Albumen print, 7.7/8 x 5¾ in., arched top, mounted on card within gilt border, photographers' credit in gilt on mount, with two-page letterpress biographical note by Herbert Fry, cover sheet, all in original paper wrapper titled Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities; executed by Maull & Polyblank. and dated No. 1. May, 1856......
來源
Clarkson Stanfield, thence by descent.

拍品專文

A fine portrait of the palaeontologist in academic robes with an animal skull. This was the first portrait issued in this series, which also includes a portrait of Stanfield. This print may have been sent to Stanfield as a sample to help persuade him to sit, which he did on 25 August 1857. Some of his family, certainly his wife and daughter, Harriet, were also photographed by them.