The Basaltic Colonnade, Staffa
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1865
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 173 mm
Place of origin
Aberdeenshire
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520443
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting The Basaltic Colonnade, Staffa. The square print is mounted on yellow card with straight corners. Verso: In centre in black ink "The Basaltic Colonnade, Staffa - No 15" with smaller print at bottom right stating "G.W. Wilson, Photographer, 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