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Photograph (Cyanotype) of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, by Washington Teasdale, Probably 1880s

Inventory Number 96943


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.96943

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949. From the collection of Richard Inwards.
Primary inscriptions
Inscribed on back: 'Kirkstall Abbey | W Teasdale on Seat'.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 71mm Width: 92mm
Inventory No
96943
Accession Number
1949-10

Description

Cyanotype (blueprint) positive. View of Kirkstall Abbey from a slight distance, with Teasdale sitting on a seat looking at it (his back to the camera) in the foreground. For another photograph taken by Teasdale at Kirkstall Abbey, dated 1883, see 83890.

For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.