Three people and two cattle by a river or lake.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
64 x 53 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.40
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting three people and two cattle by the side of a large river or lake. One person is mounted on the back of one of the cattle, another is holding the head of one of the cattle and the other is sitting next to the other animal. Markings: The print is photographically captioned from the negative with the number '41' in the bottom right corner. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. The portrait is one of a number collected into a section of the album devoted to Egypt.
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