Elaborate church doorway.
Austin Edwards Frena Films
Category
Photographs
Date
1905
Materials
Cellulose nitrate
Measurements
78 x 102 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1521312.6
Summary
A Frena Gelatine Silver film negative depicting an view of an elaborate church doorway in an unknown location.The negative has rectangular cutouts on the top and bottom.The view is taken from ground level and shows a shaped doorway, topped with a semi-circular arch. It has ornamental attached shafts and the tympanum contains several carved figures. On either side are semi-circular arched recesses. High on the right hand side is a semi-circular arched window.
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