Object within Schaaf no. 5137

Portrait of Mrs. Beckett in a dark bonnet

Image size: h 7.9cm x w 7.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: tone is similar to an albumen print

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3561

Collection: Science Museum Collection

Seated on a simple wooden chair, in profile, looking left.

The sitter is possibly wife of the Rev. William Thomas Beckett (b. 1818), curate of Lacock.