Three part slide for a Kromskop viewer
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890 - 1895
Materials
Wood, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Paper
Measurements
265 x 102 x 3 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524985.2
Summary
Three part slide for a Kromskop viewer. Kromogram consists of 4 panels of card with metal slide reinforcements held together with ribbon. Three contain photographic plates (one for each colour Red, Blue and Green). and the fourth panel is blank to allow for the vertical step of the viewer. This panel has a label printed " KROMOGRAM patented by F.E.Ives, in the United States, Great Britain, and other European Countries". There is then a spce to allow for handwritten description in black ink which contains No 58 Title, St Paul's Cathedral from Waterloo Bridge. Below is printed "The PhotoChromscope Syndicate,Ltd, Holbein House, 121 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C." on the rear is a white sticker inscribed "58" in black ink. The view is of St Paul's Cathdral from Waterloo Bridge showing the tree lined north embankment. The three images are not identical because they each represent the view with a different colour abstracted.
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