Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
251 x 198 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.33
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting the Bridge of Sighs, Venice,Italy. The bridge is centre foreground, taken from the Grand Canal. 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: "Venis" and below the photograph: "Bridge of Sighs".
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