Mural Fresco in a House at Pompei, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
169 x 249 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.43
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a Mural Fresco at a house in Pompei, Italy. The print is mounted onto a white stiff card page on the lefthand side within an album. a significant proportion of the negative has been masked to provide a dark background on the print photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, below the photograph, handwritten in ink and underlined, are the words: Mural Fresco in a House at Pompei '
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