The Miner's Bridge, Bettws-y-Coed
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
card size 83 x 173 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520379
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the Miner's Bridge at Bettws-y-Coed. The scene shows the Miner's Bridge angled at a steep slant over the river to the rocky ground below. There are two figures depicted in the scene. The print is mounted on heavy yellow rectangular card with square corners. There is a 1mm gap between the two rectangular images. Recto: Printed in brown ink on the left hand edge: North Wales Illustrated by Francis Bedford Printed in brown ink on the right hand edge: 877. Bettws-y-Coed - The Miner's Bridge, No. 2 Verso: handwritten in black ink in the top left hand corner: Bettws y Coed July (11/68) sic
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
Makers and roles
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894), photographer and publisher