" The glass was beginning to melt away within a bright silver mist."
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1907
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
82 x 82 x 2 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520816.42
Summary
A lantern slide, No.1 of a set of 45 monochrome gelatin silver glass lantern slides of Alice through the looking Glass: in black ansd appears to be from original book illustrations published by Macmillan & Co. The print is of Alice kneeling on the mantleshelf pressing into the mirror The picture issurrounded by a square frame which has a narrow brown paper edging. There is a white label and spots on the top of the slide Around the picture in white paint/ink "1 The glass was beginning to melt away within a bright silver mist"
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