The Ruins of Muckross Abbey
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
82 x 71 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520370
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Ruins of Muckross Abbey, Kerry. A capped man stands in the centre amongst tombs before a huge ivy covered archway. Print is mounted on yellow card with straight edged corners, square images, with small gap betwen images. Sticker on Verso reads in printed ink "Ireland. Ruins of Muckross Abbey, Lakes of Killarney,County of Kerry. Founded in 1440 by the MacCarthy More, whose remains, with the O'Donoghoes and the O'Sullivans, rest in the chancel."
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986