Photographs: PH1785

Title

Miss Janet Achurch

Technique

Woodburytype

Subject

Achurch, Janet

Artist

Carson & Comerford (London, England)Barraud, Herbert Rose

Date

1887

Dimensions

height (mount): 23.5cm
width (mount): 16.3cm
height: 11cm
width: 8.9cm

Inscription/signature

Printed recto: ""I will chide no breather in this world, but myself : against whom I know most faults." / AS YOU LIKE IT.- ACT III., SCENE II. / MISS JANET ACHURCH / FROM A PHOTOGRAPH SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR "THE THEATRE" BY BARRAUD, / 263, OXFORD STREET, W."

Provenance

Presented by Mr Michael Gaunt, October 2023.

Other number

E0147

Woodburytype photograph depicting stage actress and actor-manager Janet Achurch, specially taken for "The Theatre" by Herbert Rose Barraud and published by Carson & Comerford, 1 October 1887. She is depicted in half length, sitting to the left, wearing a light coloured overcoat with a bow and brooch at the neck, and white ruffled collar.