BIB_ID
450221
Accession number
MA 23742
Creator
Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901, photographer.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; case dimensions: 135 x 115 mm; image: 93 x 70 mm
Notes
Quarter-plate daguerreotype, mounted as oval within gilt mount; photographer's studio credit stamp "224 Regent St / (Argyll Place) / Mayall / & / 433 West Strand" in gilt on the reverse of the morocco case.
Date range for this portrait suggested by a patent date, "Reg. July 20 1852" which is visible on the catch of the case, and which corresponds to the year that Mayall opened his 224 Regent Street premises, and by the fact that Mayall subsequently sold his 433 West Strand studio to his assistant Jabez Hughes in June of 1855.
Date range for this portrait suggested by a patent date, "Reg. July 20 1852" which is visible on the catch of the case, and which corresponds to the year that Mayall opened his 224 Regent Street premises, and by the fact that Mayall subsequently sold his 433 West Strand studio to his assistant Jabez Hughes in June of 1855.
Provenance
Possibly owned by Mary "Mamie" Dickens (1838-1896); Stuart Heggie Vintage Cameras, Canterbury, purchased from a customer in 1996; Colin Axon, purchased from the former; Bonhams, 17 May 2012, lot 1, consigned by the former; UK private collector, purchased at the sale; bequest to private owner; sale, Bonhams 17 December 2020, lot 41.
Summary
Portrait of Catherine Dickens (1815-79), née Hogarth, wife of the novelist Charles Dickens, shown facing 3/4 to the right and wearing a dark bonnet.
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