Elliott & Fry was a Victorian photography studio founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry. For a century, the firm's core business was taking and publishing photographs of the Victorian public and social, artistic, scientific and political luminaries. In the 1880s, the company operated three studios and four large storage facilities for negatives, with a printing works at Barnet.
The reverse of a carte de visite by Elliott & Fry
Clarence Edmund Fry
William Ewart Gladstone
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alexander Bassano was an English photographer who was a leading royal and high society portrait photographer in Victorian London. He is known for his photo of the Earl Kitchener in the Lord Kitchener Wants You army recruitment poster during the First World War and his photographs of Queen Victoria.
Self portrait, c. 1890s
Photograph of Prince Albert Victor, 1875
Photograph of Queen Victoria, 1882