Vietri sul Mare, near Salerno, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
204 x 255 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.50
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the town and bay at Vietri sul Mare, near Salerno, Italy, with the hillside in the foreground. 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, faintly handwritten in pencil are the words: 'Salerno? '
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