Three women in middle-eastern dress.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass, Fabric tape
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521260
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver glass lantern slide, depicting three women in middle eastern dress, faces covered, walking outdoors next to a building. The image has been retouched by selective scratching away of the emulsion layer. Two sheets of glass, 83 mm x 83 mm, one of which carries the image and the other is a cover glass, bound together with black fabric tape.
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.