A Quiet Spot
London Stereoscopic Company
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 171 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520576
Summary
A collotype stereograph depicting 3 young females in bathing costumes in the prow of a rowing boat at rest beside a bank of reeds. The Print is mounted on rounded cornered buff card. The images are square with the upper corners rounded. Recto: At left and right edges in black print ""L.S. and Co, London, made in England" The left image is marked in the lower centre "A quiet spot" in white coloured text
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
London Stereoscopic Company , photographic studio