The Ladies' Field Club of York is an imaginary group of women amateur natural scientists from the 19th century who, in pursuit of their studies, made field trips in a specially designated railway carriage. Part installation, part photographic fiction, The Ladies' Field Club of York (1999) is the work of artists Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett and has been created for the National Railway Museum in York, UK. Central to the work are these eight photographic portraits of the seven members of the field club and their trusted porter. These portraits have been made using the exact styling conventions and techniques of late Victorian studio portraiture. The models employed for the portraits were contemporary art curators currently working in Britain at the time.
