L2.113 Lloyd, Lucy. Cape Town, 1862

L2.113 Lloyd, Lucy. Cape Town, 1862

Photographs and Portraits

1862

Carte de visite. Full-length studio portrait. Printed on back: J. Kirkman, Photographic Artist, Cape Town in ornate circular logo. Small Brown Album.

Lloyd is shown standing next to a balustrade identical to that in the carte de visite of Wilhelm Bleek, Item #80 above. Her head is turned to face the camera. As Kirkman took both portraits, and Lloyd had returned to Natal by January 1863, it more than likely that this portrait was taken while she was in Cape Town. Additional evidence in support of an 1862 date attribution is that in 1866 Kirkman closed his studio and sold his studio negatives to Lawrence & Selkirk. He then left Cape Town for George, returning in 1868.31 Evidence that the original negative of this photograph of Lloyd was indeed sold to Lawrence & Selkirk is to be found on a copy of this portrait reproduced by Schoeman (1997)32 that has their imprint on the face of the carte de visite below the photograph. To date there does not seem to be any evidence to suggest that Lloyd visited Cape Town again until 1867 and so unless such is discovered, it appears certain that the Kirkman portrait can be dated reliably to sometime in the last three months of 1862.