An arched bridge over a wide river.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521117.33
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer. Single sheet of glass, unmounted and unframed. It depicts a many arched bridge over a wide river with what looks to be dry docks on the right bank. In the background are some large buildings. In the middle of the two images printed at the top is 'VERASCOPE RICHARD' at the bottom handwritten in ink '28'.
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