Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Stonehenge. Near view from the West
c. 1880 after an 1860 originalCarbon print | 7.4 x 7.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2320053
Photograph of Stonehenge with lintels and posts extending from the left foreground to the background. A number of posts lie on the ground and another stands diagonally, leaning to the left. A man stands alongside this stone, in left side profile and with his left hand raised towards his head.
This is one of a series of photographs of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England that Wilson made in the spring of 1860. This photograph is a later carbon copy which is a process that is less susceptible to light damage, unlike the original albumen photograph that was prone to fading over time.
This is one of a series of photographs of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England that Wilson made in the spring of 1860. This photograph is a later carbon copy which is a process that is less susceptible to light damage, unlike the original albumen photograph that was prone to fading over time.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.4 x 7.3 cm (image)
17.2 x 13.0 cm (mount)
From an album of photographs collected and arranged by Albert, Prince Consort between 1860 and 1861
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Wiltshire [England]
- Salisbury Plain [Wiltshire]
- Stonehenge [Salisbury Plain]
- Salisbury Plain [Wiltshire]
- Wiltshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Archaeology
- Prehistory
- Prehistoric stone monuments
- Prehistory
- History
- History of Europe
- History of England & Great Britain
- England & Great Britain-History (Prehistory, Roman & Anglo-Saxon period)
- General medieval and modern history (European history)
- History of England & Great Britain
- History of Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
