Bettws-y-Coed - View from below bridge at Pont-y-Pair
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 84 x 172 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520386
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the river Llugwy below Pont-y-Pair bridge, Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales. Print is mounted on heavy yellow card with square corners (yellow on recto; white on verso) Images are straight edged with a 1mm gap between left and right images Markings: Recto: Printed in brown ink up the left hand side: "North Wales Illustrated. By Francis Bedford". Printed in brown ink up the right hand side: "2198. Bettws-y-Coed - Pont-y-Pair, from below bridge. Verso: No markings, Card is white, glossy.
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