Le Lion a Lucerne. Switzerland
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
Page size 120 x 173 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520685.3
Summary
An albumen print in landscape format depicting a view of the Lion Memorial, Lucerne. ( It is a giant dying lion carved out of a wall of sandstone rock above a pond at the east end of the medieval town. It was designed as a memorial for the mercenary soldiers from central Switzerland who lost their lives while serving the French king Louis XVI during the French Revolution). 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: "313 Le Lion a Lucerne."
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