Aiguilles Vertes et du Bru
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 mm x 176 m
Place of origin
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France)
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520547
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depictingan alpine scene near Chamonix showing a rocky outcrop and the stump of a tree in the forground, and a group of people including one sitting on a horse and holding a umbrella in backgound, set against a backdrop pf alpine peaks and connifers. The print is mounted on stiff cream card with rounded corners. The images have a rounded top and square base. Recto - printed in red ink on both the left and righthand margins Vues de Chamonix Par Tairraz Joseph Printed in red ink on lower right margin 4. Aiguilles Vertes et du Bru Verso - blank
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