John Hill Morgan (1833- )

STEEP STREET, BRISTOL, 1866. A pair of platinum prints, published by Frost & Reed in an edition /100 in 1891, each mounted to presentation card with printed caption, image size 255 x 205mm, card size 440 x 370mm. Each framed, frame size 540 x 400mm, with a gold-plated attribution label recto and edition information on typed label verso. Mount caption reads, "Steep Street ___ Demolished in 1871 / From a Negative taken by the late John Hill Morgan in 1866. Published by Frost & Reed, Bristol, in 1891 / Negative destroyed ____100 copies printed."

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Historic England holds one of these prints in their collection [OP08887], recorded as: "The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, 1866. John Hill Morgan (b 1833), platinum print. This view was recorded five years before Steep Street, curving away to the left, was demolished and replaced by a realigned road, Colston Street. Steep Street existed in the medieval period when it was the main road from the centre of Bristol to Gloucester. This photograph was published in 1891 as a nostalgic view by Bristol art publishers and print sellers Frost & Reed. A limited run of 100 prints was produced and the negative destroyed."