Bare shouldered seated lady looking through a stereograph viewer with geometrically patterned curtains / carpets in the background.
London Stereoscopic Company
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 177 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520584
Summary
A collotype stereograph depicting a bare shouldered seated woman looking through a stereograph viewer with geometrically patterned carpets or curtains in the background. Print is mounted on buff coloured card with rounded corners. The images are printed side by side on a single piece of paper with a white dividing strip down the middle at the top of which the circular registration reference is visible. The paper has partially rounded top edges. Recto: Printed in white bottom left right image: 175-01 wie plastisch. Printed in black on side edges of card: L. S. & Co. Series (Made in England) which reads upwards on the left side and downwards on the right side. Verso: No markings.
Provenance
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