Magic Lantern Slide: Tintern Abbey
This image is one of a series showing Tintern Abbey in Wales. The image is by William Weaver Baker who generally took photographs of buildings and objects in Exeter, but did travel further afield to take architectural images. Tintern had been a ‘romantic ruin’ during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the ivy which contributed to this atmosphere was removed by the Office of Works in the early twentieth century. The foliage visible in this photograph suggests it was taken prior to the removal of the ivy, so dates the image to before 1928.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/137
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Tintern Abbey
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'TINTERN' on top edge; handwritten 'Tintern Abbey.' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
