L1.79 Lloyd, Jemima Charlotte. February, 1862

L1.79 Lloyd, Jemima Charlotte. February, 1862

Photographs and Portraits

1862

Studio portrait, sepia. Full length seated portrait, 4¼ x 3¼ inches. Photographic Studio: The London School of Photography. Pantheon, Oxford St. Studio's imprint on verso: THE LONDON SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY 103, NEWGATE STREET 174, Regent Street 52, Cheapside, E.C. 23, Poultry, E.C. Pantheon, Oxford St. Myddeltyn Hall, N, and 46, Church Street, Liverpool. Frame: 4¾ x 3¾ x 3/8th inches.

This photograph is in its original frame with a small metal ring inserted in the top of the frame from which to hang it. It is inscribed on the back in ink, bottom left: Thursday, about 20 February 1862. In Jemima Lloyd's letter to Bleek from 11 Broomfield Terrace, Pimlico, S.W. dated Mon. Feb. 24th 1862, in the section headed "Tuesday night Feby 25th" Lloyd writes that the next day she plans "a needful expedition into London to see Dr. Russell - get my photograph (which I had taken last week - but have not seen yet)." February had been foggy but "the sun came out for a little while last Thursday morning [Feb. 20th] as I rushed off to Oxford Rd once more to seize upon the opportunity; it fortunately did get taken." Lloyd then refers to an earlier photograph that she had had taken at Worcester that she did not like (see note under #78 above) and continues: "I just went in the dress I always wear if going out or staying anywhere, so long as this court mourning shall last - so you see its just me, I mean as I constantly am now - I mean I didn't dress up, or anything - for that is what I have such a horror of in either photographs or reality." This studio portrait is believed to be the only copy in existence and not in the public domain