[Woman with album]
Photograph
W. L. H. Skeen & Co.
Maker
[Woman with album]
ca. 1885
Albumen silver print
Image: 5 7/8 × 4 1/16 in. (15 × 10.3 cm)
Mount: 6 9/16 × 4 5/16 in. (16.6 × 11 cm)
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2017
2017.0026.0020
Inscriptions Printed in ink on mount recto, BC: W.L.H. SKEEN & Co. [monogram] COLOMBO. CEYLON.
Printed in ink on mount verso, C: BY SPECCIAL APPOINTMENT \ W.L.H. SKEEN & Co. \ SOIT QUI \ PHOTOGRAPHERS TO H.R.H. \ THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH \ Colombo \ CEYLON \ [insignia] VIRTUTIS REGIA MERCES \ PRIZE MEDALS, \ COLOMBO 1870, \ PARIS, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1878, \ 1st AWARD & MEDAL SYDNEY EXHIBITION 1880, \ 1st AWARD & MEDAL MELBOURNE EXHIBITION 1881. \ GOLD MEDAL COLOMBO 1883 \ GOLD MEDAL CALCUTTA 1884 \ SPECIAL BRONZE MEDAL DUBLIN PHOTOGRAPHIC \ EXHIBITION 1884
Printed in ink on mount verso, BC: – Marion Imp. Paris. –
Printed in ink on mount verso, C: BY SPECCIAL APPOINTMENT \ W.L.H. SKEEN & Co. \ SOIT QUI \ PHOTOGRAPHERS TO H.R.H. \ THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH \ Colombo \ CEYLON \ [insignia] VIRTUTIS REGIA MERCES \ PRIZE MEDALS, \ COLOMBO 1870, \ PARIS, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1878, \ 1st AWARD & MEDAL SYDNEY EXHIBITION 1880, \ 1st AWARD & MEDAL MELBOURNE EXHIBITION 1881. \ GOLD MEDAL COLOMBO 1883 \ GOLD MEDAL CALCUTTA 1884 \ SPECIAL BRONZE MEDAL DUBLIN PHOTOGRAPHIC \ EXHIBITION 1884
Printed in ink on mount verso, BC: – Marion Imp. Paris. –
