Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) front, photoengraving
Regular browsers will recognise this little lady ("little" as in 50% scale, and "lady" as in lost-wax cast bronze statuette) who resides in Tate Britain. In fact they'll have seen a version of this very photo before, here. This is how the photo appears in a 1908 illustrated catalogue of The National Gallery of British Art. But wait, I hear you cry, isn't the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square? Why, yes it is - but the National Gallery of British art was an annex on Millbank, founded by Sir Henry Tate in 1897 but commonly known as the Tate Gallery until that became its official name in 1932. But you knew all that, of course.
Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) front, photoengraving
Regular browsers will recognise this little lady ("little" as in 50% scale, and "lady" as in lost-wax cast bronze statuette) who resides in Tate Britain. In fact they'll have seen a version of this very photo before, here. This is how the photo appears in a 1908 illustrated catalogue of The National Gallery of British Art. But wait, I hear you cry, isn't the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square? Why, yes it is - but the National Gallery of British art was an annex on Millbank, founded by Sir Henry Tate in 1897 but commonly known as the Tate Gallery until that became its official name in 1932. But you knew all that, of course.