Gateway at Usk Castle, Monmouthshire
MS. 21088 photogr. 4, item 21
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Gateway at Usk Castle, Monmouthshire
Shelfmark
MS. 21088 photogr. 4, item 21
Summary
Gateway at Usk Castle, Monmouthshire.
Along the lower edge of the album page, written in ink, the image is captioned "Gateway at Usk Castle".
Affixed to the reverse of the album leaf is a newspaper clipping about Henry Fox Talbot, titled The "Father of Photography". On the album page, handwritten in pencil lengthways alongside the newspaper clipping, is text that reads "Henry Fox Talbot was half brother to M[rs] Gaisford (Horatia) whose mother Lady E. Feilding [sic] had previously been the wife of W. D. Talbot of Lacock Abbey who died July 1800".
Associated place
Usk Castle -- Monmouthshire -- Wales
Date
n.d.
Language
English
Physical facet
Artifact type: Salted Paper Print; Process type: Calotype; Type: Print in album
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Horatia Gaisford's Collection of Talbot Photographic Materials and Ephemera
Photograph album
Gateway at Usk Castle, Monmouthshire
