Elizabeth Mallet, Kilmory Cross, Dye-Transfer Print, 1960s

National Trust, Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire (NT 102739)

The buildings, monuments and landscapes of Britain were appealing subjects for amateur photographers, as relative ease of access mirrored increasingly convenient photographic technologies. Elizabeth Mallet was a keen photographer who made many hundreds of images of the UK’s outdoors. This is one of a large group of her photographs held in the collections at the Fox Talbot Museum of Photography, Wiltshire.

1 Elizabeth Mallet was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS). Amateur women colour photographers were well represented in the RPS from the 1920s, when the RPS Colour Group was established by Agnes Warburg and Violet Blaiklock.

2 The cross in this picture is located at Kilmory Knap Chapel, Scotland. The chapel dates from the 13th century and is historically important to Clan MacMillan.

3 The cross, known as the MacMillan Cross, depicts the chief of the clan with hunting dogs on the reverse.