Single lever coloured hand-painted glass lantern slide of a ship in a bay.
Carpenter and Westley.
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Wood, Brass
Measurements
95 x 175 x 11 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520821
Summary
A coloured, hand-painted glass lantern slide. A single-lever, circular slipping-slide; coloured and hand-painted, depicting a moonlit coastal scene with a silhouetted sailing ship off the coast of a bay, a headland with building, and a beach in the foreground, with two people. The slide uses two glasses, one of which is fixed in the frame and the other is free to turn in a circular direction by means of a lever. The fixed disc is mounted in a solid wood frame and the movable disc is enclosed in a brass collar with a brass lever attached so it can be partly turned in front of the other glass. The lever is restricted in its movement by being confined in a channel cut in the surface of the frame. The movable glass is held in position by three pins. The wooden frame measures 175 mm x 95 mm x 11 mm. The lever is 75mm in length from the edge of the metal collar. When the lever is moved, the ship rocks from side to side. Engraved in the wooden frame is the following: "Carpenter & Westley, 24 Regent St., London".
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
Carpenter and Westley., retailer