View on the Clyde at Glasgow
studio of G.W. Wilson & Co.
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
Single image, 80 x 73 mm
Place of origin
Aberdeen
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520455
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the river Clyde in Glasgow, with small steamboats in the foreground and tall ships in the background. The prints are mounted on yellow card with square corners. Each print is square, and they are mounted with a millimetre gap between them. There is a blue piece of paper applied to the verso, upon which are printed markings: Verso, bottom left, printed in ink, 'Registered' Verso, centre, printed in ink, 'View on the Clyde at Glasgow No.45.' Verso, bottom right, printed in ink, '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
studio of G.W. Wilson & Co., photographer