Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection

Clubs and Societies, A ticket awarded to a pioneer English photographer:

FINSBURY CIRCUS, London Institution, 1807, copper, arms of the City, lion crest above, number (510) engraved below, rev. robed female seated right, lamp of wisdom to right, 43mm, 29.81g (W 2671; D & W 157/435). Good very fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection.

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Provenance: Bt September 2004.

The recipient was Peter Wickens Fry, RSA (1795-1860), solicitor, Fry & Loxley, 80 Cheapside, who was also a pioneering English amateur photographer. Born in Compton Bishop, Somerset, Fry moved to London and was experimenting with photogenic drawing before Fox Talbot developed the calotype process in 1841. Fry founded the Calotype Club in 1847, renamed as the Royal Photographic Club in 1848. Fry’s first picture using the collodion process was exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Arts in 1851 and he helped Roger Fenton found the Royal Photographic Society in 1853