188 The Trick Rider
London Stereoscopic Company
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1900
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 177 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520587
Summary
An collotype stereograph depicting a woman wearing possibly circus or acrobatic costume standing astride the back wheel of a bicycle with her feet on the pedals and arms positioned to balance her. Print is mounted on buff coloured card with rounded edges. Images are printed side by side on single piece of paper divided by a black line. The paper has partially curved top corners. Recto: printed in white, bottom right corner of image - 188 The Trick Rider. Printed in black on edges of card L.S. & Co. Series (Made in England) - reads upwards left side & downwards 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