Place des Consuls (Tahrir Square), Alexandria c.1880
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
184 x 230 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.13
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a landscape view of Place des Consuls, Alexandria (now Tahrir Square) before the British bombardment of 1882 The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. Markings: Handwritten in pencil on album page beneath photograph: 'Square Alexandria'.
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