European tours (1): album
Prints: GB Shaw
Category
Photographs
Date
1903 - 1911
Materials
Leather
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1715289.1
Summary
The album contains platinum and collodion prints in an embossed leather album with floral gilt end papers and gilt edged pages each holding four prints [not all filled]. Images are inserted by slots in the page. All pages are cream with staining/discolouration/foxing, end papers mint green, cover navy. All images captured by GB Shaw: during GB and Charlotte Shaw's tours of Continental Europe. Contains: Umbrian tour 1903; Seine tour 1907; South of France and Alpine tour 1911; and two prints of London 1907. Please note: the album images do not have measurements in order to avoid unnecessary handling/removal of prints, all untrimmed and approximately 10.6 by 8.1 cm. W by H. For the same reason not all have been removed to check the verso's.
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) together with George Bernard Shaw's photographic archive.
Makers and roles
Prints: GB Shaw