The Cathedral Amiens, North East France
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
256 x 213 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.2
Summary
An albumen print photograph of The Cathedral Amiens, North Eastern France. The print depicts a close-up view of the main west facade of the Roman Catholic cathedral, Basilica of our Lady of Amiens. The facade shows the elaborate early13th-century Gothic sculpture featuring a gallery of locally important saints and large eschatological scenes. The lower tier with three vast deep porches is capped with the gallery of twenty-two over lifesize kings, which stretches across the entire facade beneath the rose window. Above the rose window there is an open arcade, the 'galerie des sonneurs'. Flanking the nave are two towers. The south tower was finished in 1366 and the north tower finished in 1406. The print is mounted onto the righthand side of an album page of heavy white card. The photograph is in portrait format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, handwritten in ink, are the words: 'The Cathedral Amiens'
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