Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
CHARLES CLIFFORD (1819-62)
Phorographic Souvenir of Spain vol.I: Door of San Santiago, Salamanca
1853-54Albumen print | 41.0 x 31.0 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2700075
Photograph of the facade of the 12th-century Church of the Sancti Spiritus in Salamanca, Spain. An arched doorway is partially obscured by a sloping wall that runs horizontally through the picture. Above the door are a two faces carved in relief and a tablet bearing an inscription. A pediment flanked by armorial shields and bearing two male heads in relief occupies the upper part of the facade.
Creator(s)
Charles Clifford (1819-62) (photographer)
41.0 x 31.0 cm (image) (image)
41.0 x 54.0 cm (page dimensions)
Church of the Sancti Spiritus, Santiago
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Spain
- Salamanca [Spain]
- Church of Sancti Spiritus [Salamanca, Spain]
- Salamanca [Spain]
- Spain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Christian church architecture
- Chapels
- Christian church architecture
- Architectural design
- Façades
- Church façades
- Façades
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
- Genealogy and Heraldry
- Heraldry
- Escutcheons (coats of arms)
- Heraldry
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- albums
- photograph albums
- Places