"One of Mafeking's defenders - "The Wolf" 16 lb Gun made during the siege by Maj. Panzera - S.A."
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 179 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.43
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting "One of Mafeking's defenders - "The Wolf" 16 lb Gun made during the siege by Maj. Panzera - S.A." The print is mounted on stiff, curved, pink card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin: "One of Mafeking's defenders - "The Wolf" 16 lb Gun made during the siege by Maj. Panzera - S.A." Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Also embossed with the number 78. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Washington D.C. Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. Verso printed in black ink: One of Mafeking's defenders - "The Wolf" 16 lb Gun made during the siege by Maj. Panzera - S.A. written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
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
Underwood & Underwood, photographic studio