A view of Ilfracombe.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1930
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521117.42
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer This slide has the top left corner broken off. Single sheet of glass, unmounted and unframed. It depicts a sea view with a rocky coast and a ship on the horizon. In the middle of the images is handwritten in ink 'Ilfracombe' and faintly written below the number '57'?
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