Painting of The Transfiguration by Raphael, 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 1521126.7
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting the painting of The Transfiguration, by Raphael, flanked by two of his other paintings, in the Vatican, Rome. 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 5 in a circle, followed by "Edizione dei Musei e Gallerie Pontificie". Slide 5 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