Clare College and Bridge, Cambridge

Albumen print of a photograph, circa 1850

Mounted to board and inscribed ‘Clare Coll + Bridge Cambridge’.

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded in 1338 as Clare Hall after an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare, and took on its current name in 1856. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on The Backs, overlooking the River Cam.

Condition: generally very good, slight toning to sky.

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