The Library, Ducal Palace and Prison, Venice, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
194 x 258 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.32
Summary
A albumen print photograph depicting The Library, Ducal Palace and Prison, Venice, Italy. There is a market stall and a faded figure 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: "Library, Ducal Palace and Prison".
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