Propylaen Gateway, Munich, Germany
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
134 x 206 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520698.32
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting the Propylaen Gateway, Munich, Germany, which is a monumental city gate at the west side of Königsplatz, in Greek architectural style. The photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. The print is mounted at 90 degrees 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: "Prophylaen (sic) Gateway"
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