Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON (1823-93)
Westminster Abbey. Poet's Corner
c. 1860Albumen print | 7.4 x 7.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2320059
Photograph of Poet's Corner inside Westminster Abbey, London with a view looking towards busts and memorials. A wooden bench stands in the left of the foreground.
Westminster Abbey was consecrated in 1065 and was dedicated to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, following a vision that a fisherman by the name of Aldrich had on the Thames near to where the abbey was subsequently built. Poet's Corner occupies the south transept of the abbey.
Westminster Abbey was consecrated in 1065 and was dedicated to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, following a vision that a fisherman by the name of Aldrich had on the Thames near to where the abbey was subsequently built. Poet's Corner occupies the south transept of the abbey.
Creator(s)
George Washington Wilson (1823-93) (photographer)
7.4 x 7.1 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
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- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster [London]
- Westminster Abbey [London]
- Chapel of Edward the Confessor [Westminster Abbey]
- Westminster Abbey [London]
- City of Westminster [London]
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Christian church architecture
- Churches
- Christian church architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Plastic arts
- Sculpture
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- Sculpture
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- photographs
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