Magic Lantern Slide: Christchurch Priory, the Shelley Tomb
This photographic image by William Weaver Baker shows a memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Christchurch Priory, Dorset. The memorial by Henry Weekes depicts Mary Shelley holding the body of Percy, who died by drowning in 1822. Its intended location was a church in Bournemouth where Percy’s heart was buried, but permission was refused and it ended up in Christchurch Priory. This is one of a series of slides showing the interior of Christchurch Priory by Baker.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/369
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Christchurch Priory, the Shelley Tomb
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'SHELLEY TOMB Christchurch' on top edge; handwritten 'Christchurch Priory. The Shelly Tomb' 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
