Record ID:
443916
Accession number:
MA 23810.43
Created:
Bradford : Walter Scott, [early 20th century]
Credit:
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description:
1 photographic postcard ; 13.5 x 8.8 cm
Notes:
Photograph of a matted silhouette portrait. Label on matte reads: Patrick Branwell Brontë. / The only known portrait. / Formerly in the possession of the late Rev. A.B. Nicholls. Publisher's negative number added in black: 7104.
Printed on verso, vertically along left edge: Real Photograph (Copyright) / Published by Walter Scott, Bradford.
Summary:
Bust-style silhouette portrait of Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), with some details added in gray chalk.
Provenance:
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife Helen Safford Bonnell.
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