Gorges du Fier in the French Alps
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
183 x 257 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.28
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the Gorges du Fier in the French Alps. The view is of a wooden walkway built into the rock face passing through a gap with white water below. The photograph has diagonally cut corners. The print is in portrait and is mounted on a page of heavy white card. Markings: Below the print, handwritten in black ink and underlined, are the words: " Gorges du Fier".
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