Grand Canal, Venice, by moonlight.
Category
Photographs
Date
1881 - 1888
Materials
Card
Measurements
190 x 258 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520694.38
Summary
A blue-wash tinted albumen print photograph depicting The Grand Canal by Moonlight, Venice, Italy. The photo is tinted blue to give the impression of night time. The view is from the front of the Ducal Palace looking up the canal. There are figures on the piazza. 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: "By The Grand Canal By Moonlight".
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