Red leather-bound photograph album containing prints
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Leather, Card, Paper
Measurements
305 x 250 x 50 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520687
Summary
A 19th Century album containing 90 mounted albumen print photographs and some loose photographs. The album includes a variety of views, subjects and sizes, including landscape views and buildings, statuary, art studies and famous paintings. The whole album is bound in red leather with 5 raised bands on the spine The front and back boards are identically, decoratively embossed with a geometrical design. Printed on first leaf (verso of end-paper) in gold letterin 'Perkins & Gotto'. There are a total of 50 gilt edged leaves (100 pages). The front and back free endpapers are made of paper, with glossy, predominantly red marbled finish. There are 13 empty pages at the back.
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 art of