Women in national/traditional dress serving beverages.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1904
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521243.19
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of 4 women in national/traditional dress serving beverages..The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view shows a woman holding 3 cups, the others are helping to serve. In between them is a covered table, holding a number of (coffee) pots and cups. A man is standing behind them and there is a partial image of a man extreme right foreground. In the backgound are curtained windows and a panelled panel, which contains an uplighter light.
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