The Ducal Palace, Venice, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
188 x 258 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.31
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting The Ducal Palace, Venice, Italy. The photo is of the front of the Palace, at a corner, with one of the winged lion monuments in the foreground, with figures sat on the steps of the monument. 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 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