Tube of re-fill leads for artist's re-touching pencil from L & C Hardtmuth's Retouching & Spotting set.
L. & C. Hardtmuth
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, Pencil lead
Measurements
143 mm (Length); 11 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Vienna
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525115.3
Summary
Tube of re-fill leads for artist's re-touching pencil from L & C Hardtmuth's Retouching & Spotting set. Black painted wooden tube with push-on lid, containing 6 spare pencil leads. Printed on the tube in gold: "L & C. Hardtmuth. Vienna."
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.
Makers and roles
L. & C. Hardtmuth , manufacturer