Woodbank House Aberdeen
Category
Photographs
Date
1910 - 1920
Materials
Glass
Measurements
43 x 108 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520876
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide, for a Taxiphote viewer. It shows Woodford House (now a hotel), Aberdeen from the Tennis Lawn. The lawn is in the foreground, with trees between it and the house. A glass slide comprising 2 stereographic pictures separated by a clear glass panel. On this is hand written in blue ink; " April 1911, Aberdeen, View of Woodbank from Tennis Lawn"
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