A large military 'cannon' like gun mounted on a turntable.
Category
Photographs
Date
1880
Materials
Glass
Measurements
82 x 164 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521087
Summary
A silver nitrate stereoscopic glass slide depicting a large military 'cannon' like gun mounted on turntable, on a stone plinth. In the foreground a stock of piled ammunition shells. The 2 images are on a single sheet of glass. There is no form of border. The rectangular images have square corners and a 3mm gap between the images. Handwritten marking on white tape, top righthand corner of the images - "2"
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