Photograph album, Souvenir de la Suisse
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card, Paper, Gilt foil
Measurements
130 x 182 x 12 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520685
Summary
A photograph album entitled "Souvenir de la Suisse", containing 24 albumen print images in a concertina format. The album is cloth bound in dark green with pale green pastedown inside front and back covers. There is gilt embossed text on the front cover, "Souvenir de la Suisse" surrounded by a gold border. The front and back cover are embossed with a rectangular design. The bookbinder's name is embossed on the back cover, "Ferd. Carpentier, Zürich". Each page within the album has a red ink border. Pastedown inside back cover has handwritten in pencil: "For Mother, with love from Lil & Will"
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