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Item Description:
Up for sale is a striking, authentic turn-of-the-20th-century studio portrait of a young gentleman dressed in full traditional Scottish Highland regalia. The sitter is pictured in an ornate military doublet, tartan kilt, plaid over the shoulder, sporran, and a magnificent tall feather bonnet.
The piece is professionally mounted on a heavy, textured dark charcoal-black cardboard display folder featuring an elegant embossed border and a stamped silver script signature in the lower right corner reading: "A.E. Barton, Artist Photographer, Winnipeg, Man."
Studio Stamp: The bottom-right corner of the mount features the signature of A.E. Barton, an art photographer formerly operating in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Context: Turn-of-the-20th-century photo studios frequently offered theatrical or traditional Scottish costumes for commemorative, ceremonial, or novelty portraits.
This photograph is approximately 120 to 125 years old, dating precisely from the late 1890s to the early 1900s (circa 1898–1906).
This window is verified by historical newspaper records from the Winnipeg Tribune, which place the photographer, A.E. Barton (Art Photographer), actively running his studio at 340 Portage Ave in Winnipeg, Manitoba around 1906. The dark, heavy cardboard textured mount style with a custom studio signature script was also standard practice for professional portraits during this late Victorian to early Edwardian period.
It is a highly collectible piece of early Canadian-Scottish militaria photography or high-end Edwardian studio costume portraiture.
