Galerie des Office, Florence, No 2
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1885
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
84 x 172 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521132.23
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting Galerie des Office, Florence, No 2. It shows a view down an ornate gallery containing full figure statues and busts. Part of a series by Ferrier père, fils et Soulier (Charles Soulier and Claude-Marie Ferrier). A glass slide comprising two stereographic pictures on one piece of glass, and covered with a second piece of glass inside which is a black and gold painted border with rounded edges. There is black paper around the outer edges to bind the two pieces of glass. Markings: On a white paper label on the right hand edge of the slide is handwritten in black ink: "7439. Galerie des Office, Florence, No 2". Recto is a further white paper label with the same title and additional information about the amphitheatre in French. Printed within the black border of the slide, bottom left, is: "7439 Galerie des Office, Florence, No 2".
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