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Oporto

Photograph
1860s-1870s (made)
Artist/Maker
Francis Frith & Co. (makers)
Place of origin
Oporto (photographed)

Photograph of Oporto from an elevated view, over roof-tops of houses, cathedral in the distance. Mounted on green card/

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Topography
Object type
Photograph
TitleOporto (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
albumen print
Albumen Process
Brief description
'Oporto', photograph by Frith & Co.
Physical description
Photograph of Oporto from an elevated view, over roof-tops of houses, cathedral in the distance. Mounted on green card/
Dimensions
  • Photograph height: 161mm
  • Photograph width: 206mm
  • Green card mount height: 331mm
  • Green card mount width: 267mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 2620 Oporto (Printed along bottom edge of photograph)
  • Oporto / View (Inscribed in pen on mount)
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.
Subject depicted
Roofs
Place depicted
Oporto
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
2620 - F. Frith & Co. serial number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3159-1995

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Record createdJuly 5, 2007
Record URL
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