The Bell Tower, Église Saint-Étienne, Beauvais, Northern France
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521227.6
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of the The Bell Tower, Église Saint-Étienne, Beauvais, Northern France. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from the ground level from the Rue de l'Étamine and shows an ornate street light, in the foreground, on a corner building. Further down the Rue on the right a building is undergoing renovation, with scaffolding propping it up, material heaped up on the pavement and road and a horse-drawn cart outside.
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