Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, East from the Latin Hospice.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520669.13
Summary
A gelatine silver print stereograph depicting a man overlooking rooftops in Jerusalem. 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: '(12) - 3091 - Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives - east from the Latin Hospice, Palestine. Copyright Underwood & Underwood.' In the left hand margin, printed in italic 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' In the centre top is printed in black ink the number 12. Verso is printed in black ink an extensive description, followed, in English and 5 other languages: 'Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, East from the Latin Hospice.' In the top left, printed in black ink: 'Position 8 - Uniform S. S. Lessons - Feb. 22, 1914'
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, publisher