Large Tudor/Mock Tudor Building, London(?)
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521209.6
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of a large Tudor/Mock Tudor Building, London(?). The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from ground level and shows a view of a half-timbered facade and side of the building. It has 4 stories, the fourth comprising of 4 triangular gables and multiple windows on all floors. The left hand side of the building has a very wide doorway, which is recessed, and has a half gate across. Above this, a rectangular room extends from the main building. On the right there is a smaller recessed doorway, again with a half gate. The doorways are linked by a set of metal railings and there are possible steps descending to the basement. There is a man, extreme right foreground standing on the pavement looking at the building.
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
Makers and roles
Austin Edwards Frena Films, photographic film manufacturer