F. Treble (Salisbury)
1866 (ca)
Studio portrait of Thomas Simpson, aged 51 years, alias 'Flint Jack', seated with bag and lumps of flint. Cap on floor. Simpson was a well known forger of antiquities.
Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers Museum1998.271.62.2
Publications history
Illustrated as figure 176.24 on page 172 of Elizabeth Edwards's essay 'Evolving Images: Photography, Race and Popular Darwinism', In Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum / New Haven: Yale Center for British art, in association with Yale University Press, 2009). Also listed on page 325 of the 'Checklist of Exhibits' as catalogue number 145. [CM 27/11/2009]
Research Notes
Biographical Information - Since Oxford DNB puts Edward Simpson's dates as c.1815-c.1880, this would date the photograph to c.1866 if it was indeed taken at age 51. [CM 15/10/2007]
LL/113149
