Fingal's Cave, Staffa
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1865 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
85 x 175 mm
Place of origin
Aberdeen
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520446
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Fingal's Cave, Staffa. Print is mounted on straight edged and cornerd yellow card with square images. Image is filled with view of cave entrance in centre and small section of sea below. Two men sit on rocks to the right of the mouth of the cave. Verso: Pale blue card fixed to the back with words in balck ink printedin centre "Finga's Cave, Staffa. No.17" and on bottom left "Registered." and on bottom right "G. W. WILSON, Photographer, Aberdeen". Handwritten in black ink along right side of blue card is "W. Husstow".
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