A roadway cut through the rocks of a wooded gorge near St Laurent du Pont
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Paper
Measurements
187 x 119 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520687.45
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view of a curved walkway/road passing through a gorge beneath overhanging rocks. The caption is photographically printed on the photograph, reading 'Entrée du Désert, Saint Laurent du Pont'. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album.
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