A wooden frame
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1888 - 1890
Materials
Wood, Metal
Measurements
128 x 128 x 15 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524927.11
Summary
A wooden frame with a central circular hole.It is hinged it two parts with a metal hook and fits neatly around two of the Dallmeyer lenses. The purpose is unclear. It is matt black.
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