Roman ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon.
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
83 x 83 x 3 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521274
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver glass lantern slide, depicting Roman ruins with pillars, amongst trees at Baalbek, Lebanon. Two sheets of glass, 83 mm x 83 mm, one of which carries the image and the other is a cover glass, originally bound together with black paper but this is now nearly all missing. Behind the cover glass there is a black paper mask over the images with rounded corners, and this is mostly missing also. Photographically captioned: "Balbek (sic). Vue de l'Acropole"
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.