A pillared courtyard.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass, Fabric tape, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521265
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver glass lantern slide, depicting two men in a courtyard/atrium with pillars, probably in the Middle East or North Africa. There is a white paper label on the top edge, upon which is handwritten "75". 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. Behind the cover glass there is a black paper mask over the images with rounded corners.
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.