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Sir Charles Fellows MD

Photograph
c. 1843 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Beard, Richard (photographer)

Daguerreotype of a head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with receding white hair. The sitter is identified as Sir Charles Fellows MD by the label on the back of the case. Sir Charles Fellows (1799-1860) was a British archaeologist who transported a large number of marble sculptures to England. He was knighted in 1845.
The daguerreotype is in a gold-coloured mount with moulded scrolling vine decoration and stamped with 'Beard Patentee', and a rectangular window. This is glazed, and the layers of glass and metal held together with black tape around the edges. This edging is coming away, so the sheet of glass is almost separated.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
RPS Digitisation Project
Object type
Photograph
TitleSir Charles Fellows MD (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Daguerreotype in a case
Copper
Metal
Glass
Daguerreotype
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by an unknown photographer (Beard Patentee), Portrait of Sir Charles Fellows MD, daguerreotype, c. 1843.
Physical description
Daguerreotype of a head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with receding white hair. The sitter is identified as Sir Charles Fellows MD by the label on the back of the case. Sir Charles Fellows (1799-1860) was a British archaeologist who transported a large number of marble sculptures to England. He was knighted in 1845.
The daguerreotype is in a gold-coloured mount with moulded scrolling vine decoration and stamped with 'Beard Patentee', and a rectangular window. This is glazed, and the layers of glass and metal held together with black tape around the edges. This edging is coming away, so the sheet of glass is almost separated.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 48mm
  • Image width: 36mm
  • Case height: 64mm
  • Case width: 52mm
  • Case depth: 6mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Green sticker with '1' stuck on the back of the case. '1843' handwritten in black ink on the back of the case. '76' handwritten on brown paper stuck on the glazing in the top left corner.
  • Sir Charles Fellow MD (Handwritten on white label stuck on the back of the case.)
  • BEARD PATENTEE (Stamped onto the recto of the gold frame at the bottom.)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Associated object
PROV.6579-2017 (RPS Group record)
Other numbers
  • XRG1022 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 2003-5001/2/28162 - Science Museum Group accession number
  • C7/D3 - RPS identifier - misc.
  • Cat no. 00D91 - RPS identifier - misc.
  • 76 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • 13044 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.436-2017

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Record createdJune 12, 2017
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1396963/sir-charles-fellows-md-photograph-beard-richard/
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