Children in the Vicarage Garden at Pullwood Bay, Cumbria.
Category
Photographs
Date
1912
Materials
Glass, Paper, Fabric tape
Measurements
82 x 169 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521025
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting three girls and a boy on the grass in the Vicarage Gardens at Pullwood Bay in Cumbria in April 1912. Two sheets of glass, one which has the image on one side and the other a cover glass. Between the two glass sheets is a black paper mask with round cornered apertures around each image. There is cream cotton tape binding around the edges to hold the whole slide together. Markings: Handwritten in black ink on the edging tape on the top left of the slide: 'Pulwood, April 1912.' and on the bottom left: 'Vicarage Garden'. The glass has a crack in the bottom right corner.
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