Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
AIMÉ CIVIALE (1821-93)
La Durance au hameau des fontaines
1859-68Poitevin process | 26.2 x 35.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2370831
Photograph of a spa hamlet as seen across the Durance River, which flows over boulders in the foreground. The settlement populates the right half of the frame. On the right a road ascends from the settlement towards the mountainside rising in the background.
Creator(s)
Aimé Civiale (1821-93) (artist)
26.2 x 35.6 cm (image)
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Rivers of western Europe
- Var, River [France]
- Rhône, River [France]
- Durance, River [France]
- Rhône, River [France]
- Var, River [France]
- Rivers of western Europe
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Secular architecture
- Baths
- Secular architecture
- Architecture
- Geography
- Physiography
- Mountains
- Rivers
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- albums
- Places
