Richard Shepherd Rockstro, 1826-1906, Dayton C. Miller Collection

Provenance: Recto: l. r.: (silver imprint, with scroll and floral motifs, on grey paper mount) Fine Art Studio; Verso: top center: (on red-ruled notebook paper, trimmed into a rectangle with rounded corners, glued to mount) u. l.: (in ink) R. S. Rockstro; u. r.: (in pencil) 402; l. l.: (in pencil) 2 00; oval imprint embossed at right: 23, BERNERS STREET / RUDALL, CARTE & Co. / LONDON. W.
Provenance: Source not known. Possibly Rudall Carte & Co., London, date unknown.
Condition: Photograph has spotted stains upper right. All edges of mount worn. Pin hole top center of mount.

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.