A 19th century photograph album containing 69 albumen prints of France, Italy and Sicily
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1891
Materials
Card, Paper, Leather, Photograph
Measurements
275 x 370 x 40 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699
Summary
A 19th Century photograph album, 1 of 2 similar albums made by the same hand. The album contains 69 albumen prints depicting scenes from France, Italy and Sicily. The album also contains albumen prints of statues and frescos. The whole album is bound in dark brown cloth. The corners are worn and the surface leather is abraded. The front and back boards are plain paper. The spine is plain. At the top edge of the spine is a very worn and torn label. There are handwritten words in ink which cannot be read clearly but possibly say: France, Italy, Sicily. The front and back free endpapers are made of plain paper. There are 4 blank pages at the end of the album. Handwritten in pencil in the top right corner of the front endpaper is: "1181 69 prints" The album contains a total of 69 prints. Generally, one print is mounted per side of the page but in places there are multiple prints mounted to the page. Most have the corners cut across diagonally. Dates, ranging between 1888 and 1891, are written beneath some of the prints.
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