Gateway and facade of a Museum
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1910
Materials
Glass
Measurements
82 x 164 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521015
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting a gateway and entrance to a museum. It has a sign above the entrance: 'Museum'. There are statues in alcoves at the front of the building, and trees surrounding it. An unframed and unmounted glass slide comprising two monochrome stereographic pictures. On the reverse in the top left corner is affixed a small white paper square, upon which is handwritten the number 8.
Provenance
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