Small photographic album, views of Trieste
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card, Gilt foil, Paper, Textile
Measurements
115 x 72 x 16 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520683
Summary
A small photographic album entitled Trieste and containing 12 albumen print photographs of views of Trieste. Gilt and black embossed red cloth cover with concertina folding. Each page is hinged to the next with red cloth tape. Title "Trieste" with scroll design beneath, embossed in gilt. Black embossed decorative border around front cover. Album closes with a black tape loop, which is worn and stretched. Back cover is blind stamped with the same decorative design as on front cover, as well as a name "... Schaiba Man." Markings: Inside front cover on pastedown, printed in black ink: "S Löwenstein, Ottico e Meccanico, Di Baviera. Piazza della Borsa N. 603-8". Also information about optics and photographs in English, Italian and German.
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