The SS Grive at sea.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905 - 1907
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521242.4
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of a number of people at sea on the SS Grive, presumably off Arcachon, Gironde, South West France. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom. It shows the ship streaming offshore.
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