Sorrento with House of Tasso, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
200 x 259 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.46
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting the house of Tasso and cliffs at Sorrento, Italy. The print is mounted onto a white stiff card page on the lefthand side within an album. The 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: 'Sorrento with House of Tasso' and in the bottom right corner of the page: 'April 1883'
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