Portland Bill, England, lighthouse
Category
Photographs
Date
1880
Materials
Glass
Measurements
82 x 164 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521091
Summary
A silver nitrate stereoscopic glass slide depicting Portland Bill lighthouse, England. The lighthouse is pictured with a cottage on either side behind a boundary wall. In the foreground there is a woman on a horse and man sat on a stone wall. 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. There are 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