Carriages in the mountains, Norway
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1909
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521293.13
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of 2 carriages in the mountains, Norway. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from road level and shows, in the foreground, a horse drawn cart/trap crossing a causeway between 2 stretches of water: it has 3 people onboard. In the background there is a further carriage. The causeway runs away towards a steep sided mountain valley.
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