The Necropolis, Glasgow
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
84.5 x 174 mm
Place of origin
Aberdeenshire
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520424
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the Necropolis in Glasgow. The print is mounted on stiff card which is rectangular in shape. It is coloured yellow on the recto and white on the verso. The images are rectangular. Recto - blank Verso - there is a label printed on blue paper applied to the verso. On the label printed in blue ink- The Necropolis, Glasgow No. 763 Registered G.W. Wilson & Co. Photographers, 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