Glass plate negative of Exeter Cathedral Chapter House with library
This image records the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral in the 1880s. At that time the Cathedral’s Library was located in the Chapter House, before it moved to the new Pearson wing in 1887-8. The date of this photograph makes it one of the earliest in this museum’s collection.
The image is captured on a glass plate negative and has been digitally inverted to a positive image, as it would have appeared if printed as a photograph. It is part of a set of photographic images recording historic buildings in Exeter, but there is no record of the photographer’s name or the date the images were taken.
The image is captured on a glass plate negative and has been digitally inverted to a positive image, as it would have appeared if printed as a photograph. It is part of a set of photographic images recording historic buildings in Exeter, but there is no record of the photographer’s name or the date the images were taken.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 321/1977/69
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- glass
- Common Name
- glass plate negative of Exeter Cathedral Chapter House with library
- Simple Name
- negative
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year High
- 1888
