Motor car in front of the Kashmir Gate with bullock cart.
Category
Photographs
Date
1907
Materials
Glass
Measurements
43 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.3
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer, depicting a 90 HP Napier closed car with curtained passenger compartment. The car stands on sandy road through Kashmir Gate. (A large double stone gateway with crenellated top ). In one arch is a bullock cart and in a doorway to the right of the gate is a standing figure. The front passenger seat is occupied by a male. The car is from the early 20th century. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a glass section on which is written "90 HP Napier Bullock cart and Kashmir Gate". The slide is unframed and unmounted. No markings.
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