The Swallow Falls, (Upper Falls), 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 1520390
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Swallow Falls (Upper Falls), Bettws-y-Coed. The image depicts the river cascading over the rocky upper falls with some bare branches of trees in the foreground. 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: 859. Bettws-y-Coed - Swallow Falls (Upper Falls) No. 3 Verso: Handwritten in black ink: Bettws y Coed July (11/86) 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