239 Heidelberg Castle
Category
Photographs
Date
1845 - 1865
Materials
Measurements
82 x 172 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520591
Summary
A salted paper print stereograph window mounted as for a tissue stereograph, but without backing tissue. The image depicts Heidelberg Castle. The prints are mounted in arch shaped windows with thin gold borders. Card colour is off white with minimally rounded corners. Recto: no wording. Verso: 239 handwritten in black ink; Heidelberg Castle handwritten in pencil.
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
Marks and inscriptions
Card covered in smudgy dirty marks particularly left side Recto.: