Lord Swathling – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Lord Swathling brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Lord Swathling
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The record gives this portrait as "Lord Swathling," a spelling that most likely refers to the British barony of Swaythling, created in 1907 for the banker and philanthropist Samuel Montagu. The title came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs in the early 1900s, and the cataloguers note that it is unverified, so the sitter's identity should be treated as a working attribution. Bain's glass negatives were usually made for quick reproduction in newspapers, which is why many of them carry only a name and a rough caption. Viewers should look at the glass plate's size and format as clues to how the picture was made and used.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,400 × 8,913 px · prints to 21 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34283 |
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