A piece of glass with graduated colouring
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass
Measurements
62 x 50 mm; 2 mm (thickness)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524949.6
Summary
A piece of glass which has a graduated elliptical orange to yellow colouring. The function is not clear but probably some filter for the camera. Note that one corner is broken.
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