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Here the model - book in hand - rolls his eyes, looking sharply up and to his left, as a way of indicating Don Quixote's eccentric demeanour. The study is also reminiscent one described by Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Antiquary (1816). The Museum's founding-director Sir Henry Cole saw and disliked such historical costume-piece photographs ('the dramatic Scenes I think failures') but bought The First of September, a still life, by the same photographer.","physicalDescription":"Pale sepia photograph mounted on card showing a bearded model posing as Don Quixote, seated in his study among books, curios and assorted arms and armour","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Price, William Henry Lake","id":"A11737"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Albumen process","id":"AAT133274"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Photograph","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[{"text":"Victorian","id":"x29321"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AR9157"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"EXP","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1855","earliest":"1855-01-01","latest":"1855-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"324","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"283","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"605","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"500","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by William Henry Lake Price, 'Don Quixote in His Study', 1855, Albumen print from glass negative","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hunt, Tristram and Victoria Whitfield, <u> Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on</u> Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery, 2007. 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The V&A’s founding director, Henry Cole, disliked historical costume-piece photographs like this, saying, ‘the dramatic Scenes I think failures’, but he did purchase a still life by Lake Price for the Museum.\r\n\r\nAlbumen print\r\nMuseum no. 3-1976\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)\r\nMarta Weiss\r\n\r\nLiterary scenes were typical subjects for Victorian painters but more controversial for photographers. The V&A’s founding director, Sir Henry Cole, disliked historical costume-piece photographs, saying, ‘the dramatic Scenes I think failures’, but he did purchase a still life by Lake Price for the Museum. 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