Gaylord Family Trip to England
PhotographerPhotographed by
Unknown
Original OwnerOriginally owned by the
Gaylord family
American
Date1893
MediumPhotography; albumen prints on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 2 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (6 x 9.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (6 x 9.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (8.9 x 11.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (6 x 9.8cm)
Mount (height x width): 3 1/2 x 4 1/2in. (8.9 x 11.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionThe ruins of a medieval abbey are situated in a desolate landscape with a high hill at the left and trees and water at the right. Gravestones in a cemetery are surrounded by an iron fence.
Object number2005.137.33-.34
Inscribed2005.137.33: On verso, in pencil, "C. W. Gaylord / England 1893 (?) / section Furness Abbey"; lower right, in pencil, accession number2005.137.34: On verso, in pencil, "C. W. Gaylor - brot this / from England / Wordsworth & Coleridge graves"; lower right, in pencil, accession numberNotesSubject Note: Furness Abbey is located in Barrow-in-Furness; the graves of the poets Willam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are located in the graveyard of Saint Oswald's Church in Grasmere; both Barrow-in-Furness and Grasmere are in the county of Cumbria, in the British Lake District. (Finlay 3/16/2012)
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