Place des Palmiers, Hyères, Southern France
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
130 x 196 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.24
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the Place des Palmiers, in Hyères, Southern France.. The view is marked as from the Hotel des Palmiers and is across a small wooded area towards the town witn a bandstand centre foreground, surrounded by buildings with the wooded hill in the background. The photograph has diagonally cut corners. The print is landscape and is the lower one of two mounted on the same page of heavy white card. Markings: Below the print, handwritten in black ink and underlined, are the words: " From Hotel des Palmiers - Place des Palmiers".
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