Purse decorated with collodion positive photograph
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
- Made:
- circa 1860
Bookform purse, 10 x 6.5cm, in ivory or bone faced with inset Collodion positive of a head and shoulders of a middle aged man, oval 2.5 x 1.8cm in rope-work brass mount. Silk-lined interior.
A book-form purse with an ivory or bone face inset with a collodion positive photographic portrait of a middle-aged man, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1860.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/2808
- Materials:
- ivory, bone, brass (copper, zinc alloy) and silk
- Measurements:
-
overall (purse): 65 mm x 100 mm
overall (image): 25 mm x 18 mm
- type:
- purse and collodion positive
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
