Great Orme's Head, Llandudno, North Wales
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
84 x 171 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520376
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting great Orme's Head, llandudno. Showing a clifftop road winding into background with sea on right and seated figure at bottom centre, two walking figures to right by fence and small building centre left. Print is mounted on straight edged and cornered yellow card with square images. Printed in black ink on recto left "NORTH WALES ILLUSTRATED. BY FRANIS BEDFORD." and on right "693. LLANDUDNO - GREAT ORME'S HEAD AND ARCHERY GROUND."
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
Marks and inscriptions
Far left recto: Ink splodge over the "R" of "NORTH WALES"
Makers and roles
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894), photographer