Carn Keys from the Cheese Rocks, Cornwall
Frith and Co. [photographers]
Category
Photographs
Date
1850 - 1875
Materials
Card
Measurements
305 x 373 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520789
Summary
An Albumen print depicting a view of coastal cliffs, there is a pencil inscription which may describe where the scene is but it is illegible. The V&A Frith collection identifies this view as being the Carn Keys from the Cheese Rocks. The print is surrounded by a grey border that is printed onto the card mount, which is subject to considerable foxing. Handwritten in pencil, recto bottom left is the illegible description. A printed paper label is attached to the verso bottom right, "Frith's Photo-Pictures the Universal Series".
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
Frith and Co. [photographers] , photographer and publisher