Ruins - France

Date: [ca 1870s]

By: Quinet, Achille, 1831-1900

Reference: PA7-50-19

Description: Photograph of the ruined shell of the Tuileries Palace, Paris Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Title; Backing board recto - bottom right - Achille Quinet; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 3 The Palace was set fire on 23 May 1871 during the suppression of the Paris Commune. The fire lasted for 48 hours and entirely consumed the palace. The ruins of the Tuileries stood on the site for eleven years. It was demolished in 1883. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 190 x 247 mm on card 225 x 284 mm

Date: [1871?]

By: Quinet, Achille, 1831-1900

Reference: PA7-50-18

Description: Photograph of a ruined monument situated in a city square. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Title The column was pulled down by Communards in 1871 but was set up again in the early days of the Third Republic Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 185 x 247 mm on card 212 x 270 mm

Date: 1844

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886

Reference: E-122-q-047

Description: An extensive view of a large Gothic building, possibly a church, open to the sky, but with the end wall and side aisles intact Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm