A man with sand art on a beach.
Category
Photographs
Date
1920 - 1940
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.15
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer, depicting a man in waistcoat, cap, and shirt sleeves, standing on a beach next to sand art including a crocodile. The image is sepia toned. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a plain glass section of the slide. The slide is unframed and unmounted.
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.