Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls, as seen by W. W. Photographically illustrated.
1864
Text by William Wordsworth
Photographer Thomas Ogle
Sheet: 19 x 15 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
Overall: 20.2 x 17 x 3 cm (7 15/16 x 6 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Illustrated book: 8vo, orig. highly gilt dec. coth, a. e. g. xiv + 191 pp. with 13 mounted albumen photos. With binder's ticket: Bound by Westley's & Co., London
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2011.1759
Provenance/Ownership History: December, 2000, acquired at a London book fair by Charles Wood Bookseller, Cambridge, MA; 2011, sold by Charles Wood to Charles Millard, Chapel Hill, NC; 2011, gift of Charles Millard to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)
Gift of Charles W. Millard III in memory of David P. Becker