The Swallow Falls, Bettws-y-Coed"
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1870
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 84 x 173 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520389
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting The Swallow Falls, Bettws-y-Coed Print is mounted on heavy yellow card with square corners (Recto is yellow, verso is glossy white) Images are straight edged with a 1mm gap between left and right images Markings: Recto: Printed in brown ink up left hand side: "North Wales Illustrated. By Francis Bedford". Printed in brown ink up right hand side: "2635. Bettws-y-Coed - The Swallow Falls, No.1" Verso: Handwritten in pencil "Interval"
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