Finsteraar Schlucht, Meyringen, Switzerland
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
89 x 178.5 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520678.29
Summary
A monochrome albumen print stereograph depicting an elevated walkway through and narrow alpine gorge. The title suggests this is the Finsteraar Gorge near Meyringin in Switzerland. The images are mounted on stiff curved dark grey card with rounded edges. The images have arched tops and straight bottoms. Recto: Printed in black ink under the images, Finsteraar Schlucht Meytingen. Switzerland. Copyrighted by M. E. Wright In the left margin printed in italic, Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours. Hollingreave Road. Burnley In the right margin, Excelcior Stereoscopic Tours. M E Wright Publisher Verso: blank
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