Mountain Roads.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1904
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521243.6
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of a road running through a steep mountain valley. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from an elevated position and shows a road, river and lake in the valley base. There is also a small village running along the road in the foreground. On the right a road can be seen winding down to the valley bottom. Two people are visible at the first bend. Below them, there appears to be the roof of a 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