Junction of the Arve and Rhone Rivers at Geneva.
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
200 x 257 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.31
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the junction of the Arve and Rhone Rivers at Geneva. The view is of both rivers with wooded hillsides left and right and mountains 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: "Junction of Arve and Rhone Geneva" .
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