Conway Castle, Wales.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1930
Materials
Glass, Fabric tape
Measurements
85 x 169 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521119.24
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide. The scene shows a view of the metal suspension bridge leading over a moat to the front of Conway Castle, with circular towers outlined against the sky. People can be seen on the bridge and walking around the mound that the castle is on A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures separated by a thin glass panel with a black fabric tape border: on the centre top edge of the border is handwritten, "1904" and on the bottom left corner is " CONWAY CASTLE. ".
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.