Marienplatz with Column to the Virgin, Munich, Germany
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
200 x 132 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520698.30
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a monument in Marienplatz, Munich, Germany. The monument is a column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary. The photograph is in portrait format and has diagonally cut corners. The print is mounted onto an album page of heavy white card. Markings: Top of the page handwritten in black ink and underlined: "Munich" Beneath the photograph, handwritten in black ink and underlined: "Marienplatz with Column to the Virgin"
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