High Street, Clovelly
Ezra Elmer Keene (Osberton 1853 - Leicester 1929)
Category
Photographs
Date
1910 - 1914
Materials
Card
Measurements
363 x 182 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520701.1
Summary
A Bromoil photographic print from a painting of a scene of Clovelly, North Devon, by Ezra "Elmer" Keene. The night time scene, looking uphill, shows a man leading 2 pack donkeys up the steep High Street in Clovelly. There are three people further up the hill. The "New Inn" is prominent in the mid-ground. Recto, in the bottom left corner printed in white handwriting is "Elmer Keene" and a blind stamp "the Worcester Series". In the bottom right corner printed in white handwriting is "High Street,Clovelly" and a blind stamp "Bristol". Verso, handwritten in pencil is "2/6", possibly the price of 2 shillings and 6 pence,
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.
Makers and roles
Ezra Elmer Keene (Osberton 1853 - Leicester 1929), artist