Palatine Chapel in Royal Palace, Palermo
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
250 x 206 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520699.40
Summary
An albumen print photograph of the interior of the Palatine Chapel in the Royal Palace in Palermo. The view is from the nave looking up to the Altar, with richly decorated columns left and right. The photograph has diagonally cut corners. The print is in portrait format and is mounted on a page of heavy white card. Markings: Below the print, handwritten in black ink and underlined, are the words: " Palatine Chapel in Royal Palace Palermo" .
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