The Library and the Ducal Palace, Venice, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
189 x 258 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.25
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting The Library and the Ducal Palace, Venice, Italy. There is one male figure sitting on the base of one of the columns and a group of men, possibly workmen, sitting outside a wooden hut far left in the midground. 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 Library and the Ducal Palace".
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