Footbridge at Shinto shrine in Kyoto in Japan
Category
Photographs
Date
1909
Materials
Glass
Measurements
120 x 164 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522899.17
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in landscape format, depicting a footbridge over the canal at the Shinto shrine in Kyoto in Japan in May 1909, with iris plants beneath the bridge. Additional information handwritten on the sleeve (not original): "May 24 1909, Kyoto Shinto shrine [no 13]? Looking uphill" Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA