Jordan and the "Promised Land" from the Cliffs of Moab, Palestine.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520669.47
Summary
A gelatine silver print stereograph depicting the river Jordan and the "Promised Land" west from the cliffs of Moab, Palestine. There is a boat on the river. 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: '(46) - 3125 - Jordan and the "Promised Land" west from the cliffs of Moab, 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 46. Verso is printed in black ink, in English and 5 other languages : 'Jordan and the "Promised Land" from the Cliffs of Moab, Palestine.'
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