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Not currently on display at the V&A

Photograph

c.1885 (taken)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A group of seven men and two women are standing in a line to one side of the entrance to the church.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph depicting an exterior view of Gol Stave Church, now in the Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo. This twelfth century church was moved to its current site in the early 1880's, and it is possible that this photograph was taken to commemorate completion of the move.
Physical description
A group of seven men and two women are standing in a line to one side of the entrance to the church.
Dimensions
  • Object height: 152mm
  • Object width: 215mm
Credit line
Presented by Col. Willoughby Wallace
Object history
This photograph is part of a set collected by Canon Wallace of Bristol in the 1870's and 1880's, and presented to the museum in 1918 by Colonel Willoughby Wallace, his brother.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
665-1918

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Record createdAugust 23, 2013
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