The 'Prentice Pillar, Roslin Chapel
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 mm x 173.5 m
Place of origin
Aberdeenshire
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520420
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the "Prentice Pillar in Roslin Chapel. The print is mounted on stiff rectangular card which is yellow on the recto and white on the verso. The image are rectangular in shape. Recto - blank Verso - there is a blue paper label applied to the back on which is printed in black ink The 'Prentice Pillar, Roslin Chapel No. 362 Registered G.W. Wilson Photographer, Aberdeen Written in black (ink) in the lower right margin of the card is a name W. Huntow (?)
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