The famous Roulette Salon, Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco, France.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520664
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the famous Roulette Salon, Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco, France. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin (58) 1720 The famous Roulette Salon, Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco, France. Copyright 1898 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Arlington N.J. Westwood N.J.. Verso there is a long and detailed description of the location, and at the bottom: "The famous Roulette Salon, Monte Carlo" written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
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
Underwood & Underwood, publisher