White Sulphur Beds, Great Crater of Solfatara (3 miles in circumference), Italy.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.33
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting a view out across the sulphur beds at Solfatara in Italy. In the foreground there is a woman lying on her side looking into the camera. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: 2164 White sulphur beds, great crater of Solfatara (three miles in circumference) Italy Copyright 1897 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso printed in black ink in English French German Italian Swedish Spanish and Russian: White Sulphur Beds, Great Crater of Solfatara (3 miles in circumference), Italy.
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
Underwood & Underwood, photographer and publisher