The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, Rome.
Category
Photographs
Date
1930 - 1940
Materials
Glass
Measurements
44 x 106 x 1 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521126.14
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, Rome. It is a long room with an arched ceiling, which is highly decorated. There is a number of marble statue heads on plinths along the left and right of the gallery and paintings of maps along the walls. The image is sepia toned. The slide is a single piece of glass, unmounted and unframed. In the space between the left and right images is printed a number 12 in a circle, followed by "Edizione dei Musei e Gallerie Pontificie". Slide 12 in Box 1.
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.