Vallee du Chateland Switzerland
Category
Photographs
Date
1880 - 1885
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
85 x 172 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521132.8
Summary
A gelatine silver stereoscopic glass slide depicting Vallee du Chateland in Switzerland. In the foreground is a number of trees and the valley floor, with the glacier and mountains seen in the background. Part of a series by Ferrier père, fils et Soulier (Charles Soulier and Claude-Marie Ferrier). Not visible 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 left hand edge of the slide is handwritten in black ink: " 4413 Vallee du Chateland Printed within the black border of the slide, bottom left, is: "4413 Vallee du Chateland Ferrier, père, fils et Soulier is not visible
Provenance
Part ofThe 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