The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
257 x 197 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.22
Summary
A collotype print photograph depicting The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. The photo is across the Canal to The Doge's Palace and the Campanile with a gondola with two figures in the foreground. The photograph is mounted onto a white stiff card page within an album. The photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: handwritten in black ink above the photograph: "Venice" and below the photograph: "The Grand Canal".
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