Man with a dead elephant
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1940
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.12
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer, depicting a large dead elephant with a man resting against it, holding a rifle and dressed in safari style shirt and shorts. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a plain glass section of the slide. The slide is unframed and unmounted. No markings.
Provenance
Part ofThe 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