Photo of Gobelin Tapestry, Governors Palace, Valetta, Malta
Category
Photographs
Date
1851 - 1870
Materials
Paper
Measurements
279 x 219 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520700.19
Summary
An albumen print photograph of one of the Gobelin Tapestries from the Grand Master's Palace in Valetta, Malta. The photo is in portrait format and is mounted on a paper page within an album. The tapestry features many animals and birds, the central subject being a horse/zebra being attacked by a leopard like cat with a mythical rhinoceros type creature behind it. Written and stencilled on the album page at the bottom is "Governors Palace TAPESTRY Malta I 1.5".
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