Couvent de la Grande Chartreuse - Vue d'Ensemble
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Paper
Measurements
215 x 276 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520687.48
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view of an imposing group of steeped roofed buildings with wooded slopes and high crags behind. This is the Monastère de la Grande Chartreuse which is the Savoy region of Southeast France. The picture is labelled with phographically printed caption on the bottom margin of the photograph that reads:- ' 293 Couvent de la Grande Chartreuse - Vue d'Ensemble. ND Phot'. 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