Flower Street, Hong Kong.
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass
Measurements
43 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520992.6
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer, depicting a street scene of flower stalls entitled " Flower Street, Hong Kong". A flower seller wears chinese dress and hat, a customer views stall wearing dark coat and trousers. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a glass section on which is written "Flower Street Hong Kong". The slide is unframed.
Provenance
TPart 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