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Rupert's favourite subject, however, was Beatrix herself and his prolific legacy of several hundred photographs forms a broad pictorial account of Beatrix’s life from infancy to marriage.\r\n\r\nThis self-portrait in historic dress was probably taken during the Potter family's extended summer holiday to Dalguise in 1878.","physicalDescription":"Double photographic print depicting Rupert Potter in historical dress.  In the left-hand image he holds a sword in his right hand; in the right-hand image the sword is in its sheath.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Potter, Rupert (1832-1914)","id":"A19569"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Scotland","id":"THES262877"},{"text":"Tourism & Travel","id":"THES250702"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"44","box":"A"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Dalguise House","id":"x43404"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1878","earliest":"1878-01-01","latest":"1878-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Joan Duke","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"122","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"165","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Rupert'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil inscription by Joan Duke on verso"},{"content":"'1878'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Pencil inscription by Joan Duke on verso"}],"objectHistory":"Joan Duke gifted a collection of photographs by Rupert Potter to the Museum in 1983. Part of the gift was subsequently given to the Photographs section of (what is now) the Word & Image Department (E.739-2005 - E.765-2005). The rest is catalogued on the museum's object database as AR.14:1-42-1983. \r\n\r\nA second gift from Joan Duke, the Duke Collection, was subsequently acquired by the Museum in 2006, accessioned as AAD/2006/4 but catalogued individually on the library and object databases.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Double self-portrait print in historical dress; albumen print by Rupert Potter (1832-1914), 1878.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Dated from a similar photograph in the Potter family photograph album in the V&A's Duke Collection","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Dalguise House","id":"x43404"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Potter, Rupert (1832-1914)","id":"N5415"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"costume","id":"AAT178802"},{"text":"ensembles (costume)","id":"AAT209844"},{"text":"swords","id":"AAT37048"},{"text":"thrusting swords","id":"AAT37094"},{"text":"sheaths","id":"AAT198733"},{"text":"self-portraits","id":"AAT124534"},{"text":"portraits","id":"AAT15637"},{"text":"double portraits","id":"AAT254374"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.761-2005"],"accessionNumberNum":"761","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2005,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-07-25","recordCreationDate":"2008-12-09","availableToBook":false}}