A garden with hydrangea bush.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 107 x 1 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521117.7
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide for a Taxiphote viewer. Single sheet of glass, unmounted and unframed. It depicts a garden with a house in the background. The garden contains a hydrangea and a monkey puzzle tree together with other trees and flowers in the grass. In the space between the two images at the top is printed in black: "Verascope Richard", and at the bottom, handwritten in black, the number 59.
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