The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Card, Paint
Measurements
86 x 175 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520554
Summary
A colour tinted albumen print stereograph depicting the Bridge of Sighs, Venice: two buildings flank the canal in the centre with two boats and bridge spanning the canal in the midground. Small red ink mark to right and just below centre on both images. No gap between images. Print is mounted on orange card with rounded corners, images have straight edges and corners. Recto is blank. Verso is grey card. Handwritten in black ink along the left is "Bridge of Sighs Venice", a number over 2 such as the price and initials "J L G". To the centre, in a different handwriting is written in faded grey ink "Ponti di Sospiri".
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