Lucerne et le mont-Pilate, Switzerland
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
Page size 120 x 173 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520685.1
Summary
An albumen print in landscape format depicting a view of Lucerne and Mont Pilate (Mount Pilatus). Print is mounted on cream card with square corners and a red ink border, and bound into an album of photographic views of Switzerland, entitled 'Souvenir de la Suisse'. Image is straight-edged with square corners. Markings: Photographically printed within the image, at bottom left is the title: "62. Lucerne et le mont-Pilate"
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