Penzance--St. Michael's Mount – Vintage Wall Art
![Penzance--St. Michael's Mount, [between 1890 and 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e0a79788dfcb-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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This rare historic print captures Penzance--St. Michael's Mount in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Penzance--St. Michael's Mount
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Rising from Mount's Bay just off Penzance, St Michael's Mount is a tidal island that is reached on foot across a causeway only when the tide is low. The rocky summit holds a church and a castle-like structure that grew out of a medieval priory founded by monks who had ties to Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. This photochrom print, made in the 1890s, shows the island as tourists of the period would have seen it, with its fortified walls and harbor. Photochrom was a color process that let publishers sell views of scenic places to a broad market, so the picture is as much a record of late Victorian travel as of the island itself.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1890-1900.Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 10752. |
| Subjects | Islands--England--Penzance--1890-1900. Castles & palaces--England--Penzance--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,476 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218620 |
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