Print clean and strong, mount card sound. Professionally reframed at some point; kraft backing, D-rings and hanger are modern.
A large-format photograph of the celebrated open spiral staircase in the François I wing at Blois, the Loire Valley château, printed in the warm purple-brown of albumen with the deep shadows beginning to silver. The print is mounted on its own card, the edge slightly irregular where it was trimmed by hand, and framed behind a blue-grey inner mat and cream outer mat in a silvered frame. Hang it where the architecture can be looked at properly — the carving on that staircase rewards a close read
