The South Aisle of Tintern Abbey

This staged photograph depicts a young woman posed beside Tintern Abbey in Wales. Tintern Abbey was a popular subject matter in nineteenth-century art, possibly owing William Wordsworth’s (1770–1850) popular poem Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 (1798) and growing tourism in the Wye Valley. 

This is one in a series of photographs of Tintern Abbey taken by Roger Fenton (1819–69).