Fantoft Stave Church, Bergen, 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 1521293.6
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of the Stave Church at Fantoft, Bergen, Norway. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from a slightly elevated position and shows the church surrounded by trees. There is a stone cross dated 1150 from Tjora on a mound in front of the church. A man and a woman are in the foreground, walking towards the church.
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