Women Photographers
The Royal Collection contains a significant body of work by women photographers
The Cloth Hall, Ypres
1919RCIN 2943160
This photograph depicts The Cloth Hall, Ypres. Once the major trading centre for the Ypres textile industry, a series of attacks between 1914 and 1918 led to the near complete destruction of the Cloth Hall. Only a small section of the structure, illustrated in this photograph, remained. The Cloth Hall thus became an iconic image of the destruction of war, as captured here by Edis.