Ffos Noddyn, View on the Conway, Bettws-y-Coed
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
card size 83 x 172 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520385
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Bettws-y-Coed, Ffos Noddyn, View on the Conway. The scene depicts a river gorge with large boulders and a man sitting on a rock looking into the river. The print is mounted on heavy yellow rectangular card. 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: 890. Bettws-y-Coed- Ffos Noddyn, View on the Conway Verso: A rectangular label in the top left hand corner, printed in black ink: Sold by G.L. Woodley, Central Library, Llandudno
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