View of Conway and the Castle, Wales.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1930
Materials
Glass, Fabric tape
Measurements
85 x 169 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521119.28
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide. The scene shows a view of Conway. taken from the pebbly river bank, showing Conway Castle on the left and the town in the background. There is a sailboat on the river. 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. ".
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.