The Lizard Lighthouse.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521117.27
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer. Single sheet of glass, unmounted and unframed. It depicts the Lizard Lighthouse and coastline. In the middle of the two images handwritten in ink is 'The Lizard Lighthouse' at the bottom the number '74'.
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