Sheep Dipping
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
90 x 178 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522277
Summary
A monochrome gelatine silver print stereograph of sheep dipping The 2 images, with rectangular top edges, are mounted in a burgundy recto and grey verso card frame with rectangular corners and no space between them. The image shows a man with a crook pushing a sheep under in a dip. One sheep is in the foreground having been dipped. Another man and several more sheep are in the background. The image was quite likely taken by T.H. Pettipher of Oxfordshire, based on similar images in the same set. Marking: Recto, Handwritten in pencil, "Sheep dipping". Verso, Nil
Provenance
Donated on 5 September 2012 to the Fox Talbot Museum by Mrs Sylvia Warwick.