Object within Schaaf no. 5137

Portrait of Mrs. Beckett in a dark bonnet

Image size: h 10.4cm x w 7.8cm

Paper size: h 11.5cm x w 8.7cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: 10.5 cm high along the right edge; border from a negative holder visible on the right

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot, 28 March 1928

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 3864.G

Collection: Photographic History 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.