Ramelah Village (Ramallah in Palestine).
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521262
Summary
A hand tinted gelatine silver glass lantern slide of 'Ramelah Village', which is probably Ramallah in Palestine. There are walls and open fields in the foreground, and the town in the distance. There is a white paper mask with rounded corners, and a white paper label along the top edge upon which is printed in black ink: "3. Ramelah Village". 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 paper tape (most of which is now missing).
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.