Le Grande Palais, Exposition Maritime Internationale 1907, Bordeaux, France
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1907
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521311.17
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting a view of Le Grande Palais, Exposition Maritime Internationale 1907, Bordeaux, France. The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from ground level and shows the most ornate Palais. It has a painted scenes in the archways above the main central doors; large statues on the first floor of the twin towers, with a collection of smaller statues in front of the building. In the foreground, behind a collection of empty chairs appears to be areas of lawn which contain large numbers of lanterns fixed into the ground.
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