A 19th century photograph album, containing 78 albumen prints
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Card, Paper, Leather, Photograph, Gilt foil
Measurements
415 x 325 x 57 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520700
Summary
A 19th Century photograph album. The album contains 78 albumen prints depicting scenes from Italy, and Greece. The album also contains albumen prints of museum classical paintings and specimen prints specimenof flowers. The whole album is bound in green leather/ leatherette cloth with green leather spine and corners. The front and back boards are identically embossed with blach and gilt lined borders at the edges of the leather detailing; with the Words PICTURES Flowers Niece - Athens 1883' embossed in guilt letters. The spine is decorated with horizontal gilt lines. The front and back free endpapers are marbled. Inventory number is marked in pencil at bottom right of front free endpaper. There is a total of 78 prints. Generally, one print is mounted per side of the page but in places there are multiple prints mounted to the page.
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