Cavalry fording the Modder River, South Africa.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 179 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.29
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting draught Cavalry fording the Modder River after passage was forced by French February 13, S.A. 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: (28) Cavalry fording the Modder river after passagewas forced by the French, February 13.S.A. Copyright 1902 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 Washington D.C. Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Verso: Printed in black ink: Cavalry fording the Modder River, South Africa .written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
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, photographic studio