The Church
Photograph
1862 (photographed)
1862 (photographed)
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Photographic view of Granada showing mountains in the background and looking down over the city. The roof of a large church is in the foreground. Mounted on green card.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Church (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | albumen print |
| Brief description | Topographical photograph illustrating a church of Granada; albumen print by Robert P. Napper, edited by Francis Frith, 1862, Granada, Spain. |
| Physical description | Photographic view of Granada showing mountains in the background and looking down over the city. The roof of a large church is in the foreground. Mounted on green card. |
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| Content description | The photograph illustrates a roof of a church in Granada and the Torre de la Vela [Tower of the Candle], one of the district towers of the Alhambra. It documents religious architecture of Granada. |
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| Object history | Francis Frith was one of the most successful commercial photographers from the 1860s onwards. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s photographs of historical and topographical sites were highly desirable. This image is part of the V&A's Frith archive which consists of some 4200 whole plate albumen prints. The photographs are file prints which were probably used as place-makers allowing easy retrieval of stocks of unmounted prints at the Francis Frith & Co Archive. |
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| Bibliographic reference | David Balsells etc al. Napper I Frith. Un viatge fotogràfic per la Ibéria del segle XIX with an essay by Martin Barnes. Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 2007. ISBN 978-84-8043-181-1. |
| Other number | 1337 - F. Frith & Co. serial number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.3648-1995 |
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| Record created | July 4, 2007 |
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