ANN COOKE

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burnham, mid - late 1840s

細節

ANN COOKE
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burnham, mid - late 1840s
Two ninth-plate daguerreotypes, the female portrait with a little hand-tinting, oval gilt-metal mounts stamped Beard Patentee, in black papier-mâché frames, each with photographer's printed paper label on verso By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Taken at Mrs. A. Cooke's Photographic or Daguerreotype Portrait Rooms, No. 6, George-Street, Hull. with sitter's names in ink in a later hand, original gilt-metal hanging rings. (2)

出版

Pritchard, Victorian & Edwardian Photographers in Kingston-upon-Hull & Beverley, pp. 1-2

拍品專文

Mrs. Ann Cooke was the first photographer to establish a studio in the English port of Hull, being recorded at the above address from 1845 until 1859. The early frames on these images and the woman's hair in ringlets suggest a date close to the establishment of the studio. It has been suggested that Ann Cooke was the first woman commercial photographer in Britain.