CORRIE NA BAICH GLEN COE
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
119 x 196 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520692.37
Summary
A monochrome albumen print photograph by George Washington Wilson, depicting a view of Corrie Na Baich in Glen Coe in Argyll and Bute. The view is of a single storey white washed dwelling sitting in front of a rocky gullyset between two mountainsides framing a high peak in the background, This probably the Coire nan Lochan, a corrie of Bidean nam Bian on the southern side of Glen Coe The print is mounted with broad paper borders. The corner shape is square. The photograph is photographically captioned from the negative: " CORRIE NA BAICH GLEN COE C.W.W.." in the bottom right .
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
Makers and roles
George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893), photographer