Babbacombe Beach Torquay England – Historic Reproduction
![Babbacombe Beach Torquay England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c9e60c8f5fc7-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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Babbacombe Beach Torquay England comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Babbacombe Beach Torquay England
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Babbacombe Beach lies on a small bay just north of Torquay, on the Devon coast of southwest England, where red sandstone cliffs drop to a narrow shingle shore. The picture was made as a photochrom, an early color process that combined a photograph with several hand-prepared stone plates, and it appears in a 1905 Detroit Publishing Co. catalog of English views. By then Torquay had grown into a popular seaside resort, helped by the railway that reached the town in 1859, and such views were sold to American buyers who had never seen the coast themselves.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 10105. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,639 × 2,695 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 160_Babbacombe_Beach_Torqua_1890.tif-08917u |
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