Tomb of Bartolomeo Collini, Bergamot, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
256 x 200 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.19
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the Tomb of Bartolomeo Collini, Bergamot, Italy. The view depicts a close-up interior view, inside the Chapel of Collini, of the elaborately carved tomb dedicated to Bartolomeo Collini who died on the 2nd November, 1475. The photograph has diagonally cut corners. The print is portrait and mounted on the righthand side of the album on heavy white card. Markings: Below the print, handwritten in black ink and underlined, are the words: " Tomb of Bartolomeo Collini, Bergamot"
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