Grand Fountain, Palace of Versailles, France
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 179 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520678.45
Summary
A monochrome albumen print stereograph depicting fountains at the Palace of Versailles, Paris, with a number of people in the foreground and background around the fountains. 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: "Grand Fountain, Palace of Versailles, Paris. Copyrighted by M. E. Wright. Publisher" In the left margin printed in italic: "Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours, Hollingreave Road, Burnley" In the right margin printed in italic: "Excelsior 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