Fan with applied photographs
Seven segment wooden fan, with head and shoulder portraits on albumen paper and cut-out monograms and crests.
Wooden fan with photographic portraits, c. 1870.
This decoratively carved wooden fan contains eighteen photographic portraits of men and boys, by an unknown photographer in about 1870.
Photographic jewellery quickly became popular in the early days of photography as a decorative and personal way to display pictures of loved ones.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/4973
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified)
- type:
- fan - costume accessory and albumen print
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
