La Grande Chartreuse Du Tunnel.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Paper
Measurements
212.5 x 274 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520687.47
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view of a roadway cut into the side of a cliff in a wooded gorge. The road has a wall running along the side above the gorge below. The picture is taken from the road which appears to be emerging from a tunnel cut into the rock. The picture is labelled with phographically printed captions that reads ' 295 La Grande Chartreuse Du Tunnel. ND'. The photograph 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