• Unknown (photographer)

Cambridge

ca. 1880

This album comprises 28 albumen silver prints of monuments of Cambridge and the following description of views of Cambridge could apply to this album:

"These views of Cambrige focus primarily on the University's great medieval colleges untouched by the additions, renovations and accretions of the twentieth century, but also document the uncluttered nature of the city itself in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Sprouting gargoyles vie for attention with gothic pinnacles, graceful bridges reflect themselves in the River Cam, and top-hatted gentlemen stroll through the snowy lanes of winter while labourers, messengers and apprentices confront the camera's gaze." (Cambridge Book and Print Gallery).

The monuments depicted are the following: Jesus College. New Buildings; Cambridge Divinity Schools; Queen's College Entrance Gate; St. John's Chapel, from Trinity Backs (Summer); St. John's Chapel, from Trinity Backs (Winter); St. John's College. Bridge of Sighs; Queen's Bridge; Queen's Gardens; Pembroke College; Catherine's College; Emanuel College; Magdelen College; St. Peters College; Dowing College; Cains College. Old Gateway; Sidney College; Trinity Hall; The Round Church; Senate House and Library; and Fitzwilliam Museum.

Albumen silver prints

album: 40,9 x 33 x 4 cm compositions (range min.): 14,7 x 20 cm compositions (range max.): 21,4 x 27,5 cm secondary supports: 29,7 x 39,9 cm

PH1979:0600.01:001-036

• exterior views
• interior views

Black leather covered coverboards and spine; gilt lettering on front cover; gilt decorations on spine and coverboards, depressed rectangles on coverboards and spine, moiré motif inside coverboards.

inscribed

Cambridge Cambridgeshire Angleterre Royaume-Uni

• architecture

• schools
• gardens
• courtyards
• entrance
• trees
• river
• chimneys (architectural elements)
• gateways
• museum
• windows
• parapet
• gates
• school (building)
• benches
• bas-reliefs
• statues
• footbridge
• steps
• clock
• library (building)
• brick paving
• roofs
• towers (building divisions)
• halls
• canal
• pillars
• façades
• men (male humans)
• lampposts
• arcade
• staircases
• fences
• streets
• lanterns (lighting devices)
• roads
• columns (architectural elements)
• coat of arms
• paths
• crosses (visual works)
• churches
• cornices
• entablatures
• pediments
• armchairs
• pedestals
• balustrades
• boats
• chapels
• field
• religious buildings
• arched windows
• tables
• vaulted ceiling
• park (grounds)
• college
• organ pipes
• chain link fence
• paintings
• friezes (entablature components)
• wooden bridge (built work)
• pinnacles
• capital (column component)
• sidewalks
• lecturn
• concrete wall
• Ionic order columns (architectural elements)
• niches
• vines
• grass (plant)
• mezzanine
• archway
• university buildings
• medallions (ornament areas)
• marble floor
• stalls (religious building fixtures)
• colonnette
• senate
• stained glass (material) window
• Corinthian (architectural style) columns (architectural elements)
• Gothic
• statue pedestal
• snow
• sculptures (visual works)
• river-banks
• caryatids