Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8832
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Portrait of Sarah Faraday
Date
1874
Sitter
Sarah Faraday (1800 - 1879, British)
Creator
T. C. Turner (British) , Photographer
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 90mm
width (print): 58mm
width (print): 58mm
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Description
Carte-de-visite full-length studio portrait of Sarah Faraday, wife of Michael Faraday. Sarah Faraday, is shown seated before a desk upon which there is a potted fern; Mrs Faraday holds a letter on her lap, in her right hand. Inscribed verso, “Mrs Faraday Easter 1874 given me by Mrs Faraday” [by William Fletcher Barrett]. Engraved verso, gold on a green ground: “T.C. Turner, photographer & portrait painter, 17 Upper Street, Islington and 10 Barnsbury Park, Barnsbury.” Numbered “26729”.
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