Title(s)

Tweemaal een gezicht op de Kathedraal en Abdijkerk van Sint-Albanus in Saint Albans
A telephotograph (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-29

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘The upper illustration is an ordinairy photgraph showing St. Alban's Abbey in the distance. The lower illustration is a telephotograph taken from the very same position, one mile distant from the Abbey. Th little frame in the upper illustration marks off the exact portion of that picture taken in by the telephoto lens in the lower illustration. (See chap. xviii.)’

Description

Boven: van een mijl afstand genomen Onder: met telefotografie van een mijl afstand genomen.

Artist

• Arthur E. Smith (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous

Place

Saint Albans

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 122 mm × width 84 mm

What

• abbey, monastery, convent ~ Roman Catholic church

Where

• Kathedraal en abdijkerk van Sint-Albanus

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)