Twelve coloured lithographic glass lantern slides depicting children's stories and imagined portraits, in original wooden box and the associated scripts.
Ernest Plank
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass, Paper
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520824
Summary
A boxed set of twelve coloured lithographic glass lantern slides, in rectangular format with four circular images (40 mm diameter) per slide, including asscociated scripts. The images depict children's stories (10 slides) and portraits of imagined people (2 slides). The four circular images are printed on one side of the glass. All the edges are sealed with a red paper border. Each slide has a printed black mask between the images.
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
Ernest Plank , manufacturer