Cavern au glacier de Rosenenlauï
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1885
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
85 x 172 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521132.14
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting a cavern in the base of the Rosenlaui glacier. It also shows a man, holding an ice axe, sitting on a wooden ladder that is crossing the glacier meltwater reading a paper/map. The Rosenlaui is a 5-km-long glacier (2005) situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Berne in Switzerland Part of a series by Ferrier père, fils et Soulier (Charles Soulier and Claude-Marie Ferrier) is visible on the bottom righthand side of the slide. A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures on one piece of glass, and covered with a second piece of glass inside. There is black paper around the outer edges to bind the two pieces of glass. The image is surrounded by black painted masking, with a double gold border. Markings: On a white paper label on the righthand edge of the slide is handwritten in black ink: "7241 Cavern au glacier de Rosenenlauï" Printed within the black border of the slide, bottom left, is: "7241 Cavern au glacier de Rosenenlauï".
Provenance
Part of he 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