Mouth of Clam Shell Cave, Staffa
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
83 x 173 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520444
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Clam Shell Cave, Staffa on straight edged and cornered yellow card with square images. Showing two men,one pointing, seated on rocks to the right foreground, a smal sailing boat in the water before the headland to the left, entrance to the cave on right and rocks rising up in the background. Mounted askew on verso white card with words printed in black ink in centre "Mouth of Clam Shell Cave, Staffa. No. 16" and on bottom right " 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