Frederick Henry Evans

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Frederick Henry Evans

Portraits of the photographer's family, circa 1890s

Twenty platinum prints, 1¾ x 1½ in. to 5¾ x 3¾ in., two a warm brown tone, two mounted together on textured paper with pencil inscription Evan and photographer's monogram blindstamp, eighteen mounted on cream linen-textured card, the majority with grey card border ruled in pencil and photographer's monogram blindstamp, one mounted on double layer of card, each identified in ink in a later hand and four with photographer's bookplate on verso. (20)

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Including several portraits of his children Evan, Barbara and Geoffrey, his wife and and Miss Rose Longhurst (aunt).

The cream linen-textured card mounts are typical of those apparently used by Evans's son when mounting his father's prints after his death.

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