The Fountain of Elisha - miraculously sweetened by the prophet - near Jericho, 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 1520669.50
Summary
A gelatine silver print stereograph depicting the Fountain of Elisha near Jericho, Palestine - a walled pool, with hillside behind. Three people in the foreground and five people in the distance on the hillside. 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: '[the number 49 is missing - scratched off] - 3256 - Fountain of Elisha - miraculously sweetened by the prophet - near Jericho, 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 49 Verso is printed in black ink, in English and 5 other languages : 'The Fountain of Elisha - Miraculously Sweetened by the Prophet (2 Kings II, 19-22)'
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