Glass bottle of Fixing Solution.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1880
Materials
Glass, Chemicals
Measurements
130 x 43 x 43 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525102.3
Summary
Glass bottle of Fixing Solution. White crystals in a square sided glass bottle with glass stopper. Paper labels printed in black ink with the following: "Fixing Solution. From Wratten & Wainwright, Photographic Chemists & Apparatus Manufacturers. Sole proprietors of the "London" dry plates, 38 Great Queen Street, London, WC".
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.