Meran in the Tyrol
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
219 x 276 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520698.50
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view across the valley to Meran in the South Tyrol, Austria (now Merano in the region of Alto-Adige, Italy) with mountains in the distance. The photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. The print is mounted onto an album page of heavy white card. Markings: Beneath the photograph, handwritten in black ink and underlined: "Meran in the Tyrol", and in the bottom right corner of the album page, handwritten in black ink and underlined: "May 1891".
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