Galerie de Tete Noire
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
89 x 176 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520548
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting The Galerie de Tete Noir. The picture shows a wstony pathway tarversing a steep incline. There is a broken handrail above a steep fall, The pathway follows roun dto a tunnel carved through the cliff face. The print is mounted on stiff cream card whch has rounded corners. The images have a curved top and a square base. Recto- printed in red ink in both margins - Vues de Chamonix par Tairraz Joseph Printed on the right lower margin 129 Galerie de Tete Noire 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