Babbacombe Beach Torquay England – Antique Wall Art
![Babbacombe Beach Torquay England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/385acf1b4db6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Babbacombe Beach Torquay England. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Babbacombe Beach Torquay England
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Babbacombe Beach lies on the red-cliffed Devon coast within the seaside resort of Torquay, a place Victorian visitors came to for its mild climate and sheltered bays. This view comes from the Photochrom process, a Swiss method that printed several colored inks from a single black-and-white negative, giving the scene a soft, hand-tinted look. The Detroit Publishing Company, which held American rights to the process, issued these views in its catalogues, and this example is listed in its 1905 catalog of England scenes. Its survival in that series is a useful reminder of how popular travel imagery of British seaside towns was in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 10713. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,648 × 2,727 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 161_Babbacombe_Beach_Torqua_1890.tif-08918u |
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