Two men in two boats drawn up on shingle beach
W. Spreat's Lithographic Establishment
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Card
Measurements
85.5 x 175 mm
Place of origin
Exeter
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520546
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting two men staning in two seperate small boats which are drwan up on a shingle beach. Each man has an oar in his hands. Immediately behind the boats and behind the beach are some trees in front of which there are what appear rto be fising nest drying on some poles. The print is mounted on stiff cream coloured and slightly curved card, the corners of which are rounded. Recto - blank Verso - Printed in black ink New Series of Stereographs of Cornwall Published by W Spreat 229 Hight St Exeter
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
W. Spreat's Lithographic Establishment, photographic publisher