The House at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England.
Category
Photographs
Date
1880
Materials
Glass
Measurements
82 x 164 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521105
Summary
A silver nitrate stereoscopic glass slide depicting The House at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England. It has been taken from across the lake, with a perfect relection mirrored in the water. The 2 images are on a single sheet of glass. There is no form of border. The rectangular images have square corners and no gap between the images. Handwritten on white tape on the bottom right hand side of the right hand image is the number "6".
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