Aix Les Bains and Lake Bourget
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
248 x 186 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.26
Summary
An albumen print photograph of Aix Les Bains and Lake Bourget in the French Alps. The view is over buildings across the valley to mountains in the background. The photograph has diagonally cut corners. The print is in landscape and is mounted on a page of heavy white card. Markings: Below the print, handwritten in black ink and underlined, are the words: " Aix Les Bains and Lake Bourget" and in the bottom right corner "1890 Spring".
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