Photograph - Logrono. Miranda on EbroObject: Photograph

Place of origin: Logroño (photographed)

Date: 1860s-1870s (made)

Artist/Maker: Francis Frith & Co. (makers)

Materials and Techniques: albumen print

Museum number: E.3653-1995

Gallery location: Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case X, shelf 48, boxG

Descriptive line

'Logrono. Miranda on Ebro', photograph by Frith & Co.

Physical description

Photograph of Logrono from accross the river. Mounted on green card.

Museum number

E.3653-1995

Object history note

Francis Frith was one of the most successful commercial photographers from the 1860s onwards. Throughout the 1850s and 1860sphotographs of historical and topographical sites were highly desirable. This image is part of the V&A's Frith archive which consists of some4200 whole plate albumen prints. The photographs are file prints which were probably used as place-makers allowing easy retrieval of stocksof unmounted prints at the Francis Frith & Co Archive.

URL

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O136896/photograph-logrono-miranda-on-ebro/

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