Westminster Abbey - Poet's Corner
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1860 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 173.5 mm
Place of origin
Aberdeenshire
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520407
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Poet's corner in Westminster Abbey. Print is mounted on stiff card which is rectangular in shape and is yellow in colour on the recto and white on the verso. The images are rectangular. Recto - blank Verso applied to the back is a buff coloured printed label which reads Westminster Abbey - Poet's Corner no 195 G. W. Wilson, Photor. Aberdeen
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
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893), photographer and publisher