Photographic album bound in brown leather with leather spine, containing 73 mounted photographs of Great Britain including the Manchester Exhibition 1888.
Category
Photographs
Date
1888 - 1900
Materials
Leather, Card, Paper
Measurements
320 x 260 x 50 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520688
Summary
A photographic album bound in brown cloth with leather spine, containing 112 mounted photographs, chiefly topographic views from Great Britain, and including the Manchester Exhibition 1888. The photographs are mostly albumen prints but the album also includes collotypes, halftones and rotogravure prints. The album includes a variey of views, subjects and sizes in landscape and portrait formats of buildings and scenic views. Including examples from James Valentine, Francis Frith and George Washington Wilson. There are 28 pages of photographs secured with broad paper borders. The photographs are secured to both sides of the page. The number 2585 appears in the top right hand corner of the front end paper.
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